Intel Core i5-6300U vs AMD A8-6500

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 2 core CPU vs AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD A8-6500

Price

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$ 2171.00

$ 284.69

$ 1886.31 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1069 points

1387 points

29% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2091 points

2608 points

24% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

801 points

1049 points

30% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

769 points

1007 points

30% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

20.45 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

20.09 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1313 points

1350 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

587 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

496 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

3.5 GHz

45% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3 GHz

4.1 GHz

36% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

929th of 1,089

843rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5

A8-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2013 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-6300U vs A8-6500 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the A8-6500 beats the Core i5-6300U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6300U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A8-6500 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-6300U. Also, the A8-6500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-6300U CPU outputs less heat than a A8-6500 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.