Intel Core i5-6300HQ vs AMD A8-5500

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs AMD 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD A8-5500

Price

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$ 1918.00

$ 590.00

$ 1328.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1438 points

4% slightly better overall score

1380 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2667 points

3% slightly better gaming score

2576 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1096 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

1049 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1053 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

1007 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.90 points

180% significantly higher Blender score

13.88 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2685 points

118% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1228 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

970 points

118% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

444 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2777 points

204% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

911 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1025 points

171% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

377 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

44% significantly lower TDP

65 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

826th of 1,089

844th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-6300HQ vs A8-5500 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-6300HQ performs better than the A8-5500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5500 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-6300HQ has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the A8-5500 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. A Core i5-6300HQ CPU outputs less heat than a A8-5500 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. For instance, the Core i5-6300HQ has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.