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

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 i7-5600U

Price

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$ 69.01

$ 2363.99 significantly less expensive

$ 2433.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

908 points

1056 points

16% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1895 points

2095 points

10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

662 points

783 points

18% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

637 points

750 points

17% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.11 points

26.29 points

45% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1047 points

1705 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

439 points

875 points

99% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1036 points

1765 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

425 points

926 points

117% 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

933rd 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 i7-5600U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5600U beats the A8-5600K in overall performance. 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. The Core i7-5600U 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.