AMD A8-6500 vs Intel Core i5-5300U

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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Intel Core i5-5300U

Price

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$ 284.69

$ 1591.31 significantly less expensive

$ 1876.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1387 points

20% slightly better overall score

1153 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2608 points

14% slightly better gaming score

2272 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points

21% slightly better multitasking score

860 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points

21% slightly better heavy workload score

826 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

20.09 points

24.25 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1350 points

1558 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

496 points

813 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1029 points

1572 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

438 points

825 points

88% 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

52% significantly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

41% slightly higher turbo speed

2.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

15 W

333% 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

909th 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 i5-5300U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the A8-6500 beats the Core i5-5300U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-5300U 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A8-6500 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-5300U. Also, the A8-6500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-5300U 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 i5-5300U

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.