AMD A8-5600K vs Intel Core i7-5500U

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs Intel 5th Generation Core i7 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-5500U

Price

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$ 69.01

$ 1958.99 significantly less expensive

$ 2028.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

908 points

1149 points

26% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1895 points

2264 points

19% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

662 points

853 points

28% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

637 points

817 points

28% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.11 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

17.15 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1047 points

1720 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

439 points

872 points

98% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1036 points

1695 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

425 points

881 points

107% 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

912th of 1,089

Family

The product line

5th Generation Core i7

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 i7-5500U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-5600K is faster than the Core i7-5500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-5500U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. The Core i7-5500U 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.