AMD A8-5600K vs Intel Core i7-8500Y

A8-5600K vs Core i7-8500Y comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8500Y beats the A8-5600K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5600K 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 i7-8500Y 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.