AMD A8-6500 vs Intel Core i5-5257U

Compare AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs Intel 5th Generation Core i5 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

1387 points

2% slightly better overall score

1350 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2608 points

1% slightly better gaming score

2561 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

1022 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

981 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

20.09 points

24.92 points

24% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1350 points

1676 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

496 points

900 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1029 points

1788 points

73% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

438 points

925 points

111% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

29% slightly higher clock speed

2.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

32% slightly higher turbo speed

3.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

23 W

182% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

192 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

128 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

700% significantly more L2 cache

0.5 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

843rd of 1,089

856th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops

5th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June

2015 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

A8-6500 vs Core i5-5257U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-6500 is faster than the Core i5-5257U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-5257U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A8-6500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-5257U. Also, the A8-6500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-5257U outputs less heat than A8-6500 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the A8-6500 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-5257U

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 A8-6500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.