Intel Core i7-5600U vs AMD FX-9830P

Core i7-5600U vs FX-9830P benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-9830P beats the Core i7-5600U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-5600U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the FX-9830P has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-5600U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-9830P has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-5600U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-9830P has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-5600U

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-5600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.