Intel Core i5-7300U vs AMD A10-9600P

Core i5-7300U vs A10-9600P benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-7300U is faster than the A10-9600P. Despite this, the A10-9600P has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the A10-9600P has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-7300U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-7300U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the A10-9600P. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i5-7300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.