AMD A8-6600K vs Intel Core i7-5600U

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 i7-5600U

Price

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$ 118.02

$ 2314.98 significantly less expensive

$ 2433.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1366 points

29% slightly better overall score

1056 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2599 points

24% slightly better gaming score

2095 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1031 points

31% slightly better multitasking score

783 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

989 points

31% slightly better heavy workload score

750 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.74 points

26.29 points

40% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1128 points

1705 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

468 points

875 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1081 points

1765 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

926 points

104% 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

49% significantly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

31% slightly higher turbo speed

3.2 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

933rd 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 i7-5600U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-6600K is faster than the Core i7-5600U. Despite this, the Core i7-5600U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 A8-6600K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-5600U. In terms of cache, the A8-6600K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-5600U

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