Intel Core i5-7200U vs AMD A8-5500B

Compare Intel 7th 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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$ 1956.00

$ 49.01

$ 1906.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1241 points

5% slightly better overall score

1173 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2452 points

10% slightly better gaming score

2216 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

924 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

887 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

887 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

851 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

22.30 points

96% significantly higher Blender score

11.36 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1316 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1255 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

508 points

12% 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

2.5 GHz

3.2 GHz

28% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

889th of 1,089

906th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-7200U vs A8-5500B comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-7200U performs better than the A8-5500B. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5500B 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 A8-5500B has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-7200U.

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 i5-7200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.