Intel Core i5-6300U vs AMD A8-5500B

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

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AMD A8-5500B

Price

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$ 2171.00

$ 49.01

$ 2121.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1069 points

1173 points

9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2091 points

2216 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

801 points

887 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

769 points

851 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

20.45 points

80% significantly higher Blender score

11.36 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1313 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1255 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

587 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

451 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

3.2 GHz

33% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

929th of 1,089

906th 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 i5-6300U vs A8-5500B specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A8-5500B performs better than the Core i5-6300U. Despite this, the Core i5-6300U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount 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 i5-6300U.

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 Core i5-6300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.