AMD A8-5600K vs Intel Core i7-1185G7

A8-5600K vs Core i7-1185G7 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-1185G7 beats the A8-5600K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5600K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-1185G7 has significantly more cores than the A8-5600K. Indeed, the Core i7-1185G7 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A8-5600K. It also has more threads than the A8-5600K. The Core i7-1185G7 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.

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.