AMD A8-6600K vs Intel Core i7-5500U

Compare AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 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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$ 118.02

$ 1909.98 significantly less expensive

$ 2028.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1366 points

18% slightly better overall score

1149 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2599 points

14% slightly better gaming score

2264 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1031 points

20% slightly better multitasking score

853 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

989 points

21% slightly better heavy workload score

817 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.74 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

17.15 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1128 points

1720 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

468 points

872 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1081 points

1695 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

881 points

94% 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

3.9 GHz

62% significantly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

40% slightly higher turbo speed

3 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

24.26 MiB

4752% significantly more L2 cache

0.5 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

848th of 1,089

912th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops

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

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

A8-6600K vs Core i7-5500U comparison

In our benchmarks, the A8-6600K beats the Core i7-5500U in overall performance. 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A8-6600K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-5500U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the A8-6600K has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-5500U

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 A8-6600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.