Intel Core i7-5600U vs AMD Athlon X4 750K

Compare Intel 5th Generation Core i7 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

1056 points
1297 points
22% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2095 points
2477 points
18% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

783 points
978 points
24% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

750 points
940 points
25% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

26.29 points
34% slightly higher Blender score
19.51 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1705 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1364 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

875 points
75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
498 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1765 points
71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1029 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

926 points
109% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
443 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
3.4 GHz
30% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
4 MiB
700% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

933rd of 1,089
871st of 1,089

Family

The product line

5th Generation Core i7
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Core i7-5600U vs Athlon X4 750K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5600U beats the Athlon X4 750K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon X4 750K in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon X4 750K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-5600U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Athlon X4 750K has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-5600U

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 i7-5600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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