AMD A8-5600K vs Intel Core i5 M 560

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs Intel 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

947 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1895 points

1902 points

0.37% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

662 points

699 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

637 points

670 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.11 points

71% significantly higher Blender score

10.56 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

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Ranking in the hardwareDB database

979th of 1,089

968th of 1,089

A8-5600K vs Core i5 M 560 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5 M 560 is faster than the A8-5600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5600K 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the A8-5600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.