Intel Core i7-4600U vs AMD A8-5500B

Core i7-4600U vs A8-5500B comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A8-5500B performs better than the Core i7-4600U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4600U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the A8-5500B has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4600U.

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 i7-4600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.