AMD A8-7600 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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$ 82.49

$ 2350.51 significantly less expensive

$ 2433.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1357 points

28% slightly better overall score

1056 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2567 points

22% slightly better gaming score

2095 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1027 points

31% slightly better multitasking score

783 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

986 points

31% slightly better heavy workload score

750 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.02 points

26.29 points

45% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1150 points

1705 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

456 points

875 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1045 points

1765 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

429 points

926 points

115% 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

3.1 GHz

19% slightly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

18% 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

256 KiB

100% 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

852nd 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

2014 July

2015 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

A8-7600 vs Core i7-5600U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-7600 is faster than the Core i7-5600U. Despite this, the Core i7-5600U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A8-7600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-5600U. Also, the A8-7600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-5600U outputs less heat than A8-7600 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the A8-7600 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-5600U

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the A8-7600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.