Intel Core i5-5300U vs AMD FX-9830P

Core i5-5300U vs FX-9830P specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-9830P performs better than the Core i5-5300U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-5300U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the FX-9830P has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-5300U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-9830P has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-5300U. In terms of cache, the FX-9830P 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 Core i5-5300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.