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

Core i7-5500U vs A8-5500B comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-5500U is faster than the A8-5500B. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5500B in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the A8-5500B has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-5500U. In terms of cache, the A8-5500B has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-5500U

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 i7-5500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.