AMD A8-5600K vs Intel Core i5-5300U

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs Intel 5th Generation Core i5 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-5300U

Price

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$ 69.01

$ 1806.99 significantly less expensive

$ 1876.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

908 points

1153 points

26% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1895 points

2272 points

19% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

662 points

860 points

29% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

637 points

826 points

29% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.11 points

24.25 points

33% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1047 points

1558 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

439 points

813 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1036 points

1572 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

425 points

825 points

94% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

100 W

15 W

566% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

979th of 1,089

909th of 1,089

Family

The product line

5th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

A8-5600K vs Core i5-5300U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-5600K is faster than the Core i5-5300U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-5300U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. The Core i5-5300U 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.