Intel Core i7-6498DU vs AMD PRO A8-8670E

Core i7-6498DU vs PRO A8-8670E comparison

In our benchmarks, the PRO A8-8670E beats the Core i7-6498DU in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-6498DU has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the PRO A8-8670E has significantly more cores than the Core i7-6498DU. Indeed, the PRO A8-8670E has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-6498DU. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the PRO A8-8670E has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6498DU. In terms of cache, the PRO A8-8670E has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-6498DU

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 i7-6498DU has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.