Intel Core i7-5500U vs AMD Athlon X4 760K

Core i7-5500U vs Athlon X4 760K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5500U beats the Athlon X4 760K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon X4 760K in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon X4 760K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-5500U. In terms of cache, the Athlon X4 760K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-5500U

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-5500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.