AMD A8-5600K vs Intel Core i5-4288U

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i5 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

908 points
1204 points
32% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1895 points
2413 points
27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

662 points
891 points
34% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

637 points
854 points
34% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.11 points
23.44 points
29% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1047 points
1611 points
53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

439 points
796 points
81% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1036 points
1691 points
63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

425 points
874 points
105% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

100 W
28 W
257% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

979th of 1,089
901st of 1,089

Family

The product line

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4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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No

A8-5600K vs Core i5-4288U comparison

In our benchmarks, the A8-5600K beats the Core i5-4288U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4288U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. The Core i5-4288U outputs less heat than A8-5600K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the A8-5600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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