AMD A8-5600K vs Intel Core i7-4558U

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 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

1238 points

36% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1895 points

2512 points

32% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

662 points

906 points

36% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

637 points

866 points

35% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.11 points

23.78 points

31% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1047 points

1634 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

439 points

736 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1036 points

1966 points

89% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

425 points

1007 points

136% 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

28 W

257% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

979th of 1,089

890th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

A8-5600K vs Core i7-4558U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the A8-5600K beats the Core i7-4558U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-4558U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. The Core i7-4558U 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.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the A8-5600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.