Intel Core i5-6400T vs AMD A8-5500

Core i5-6400T vs A8-5500 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-6400T performs better than the A8-5500. Despite this, the A8-5500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-6400T has significantly more cores than the A8-5500. Indeed, the Core i5-6400T has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A8-5500. But they both have the same number of threads. A Core i5-6400T 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.

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. For instance, the Core i5-6400T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.