Intel Core i5-7300U 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1153 points

1173 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2228 points

0.54% slightly better gaming score

2216 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

867 points

887 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

833 points

851 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

24.58 points

116% significantly higher Blender score

11.36 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

2.6 GHz

3.2 GHz

23% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

910th 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

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-7300U vs A8-5500B benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the A8-5500B beats the Core i5-7300U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7300U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count 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 i5-7300U.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-7300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.