Intel Core i5-5300U vs AMD A8-5500B

Core i5-5300U vs A8-5500B benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A8-5500B performs better than the Core i5-5300U. Despite this, the Core i5-5300U 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. Our comparison shows that the A8-5500B has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-5300U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the A8-5500B has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-5300U

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 Core i5-5300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.