Intel Core i7-6500U vs AMD A8-5500

Compare Intel 6th 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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AMD A8-5500

Price

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$ 1793.00

$ 590.00

$ 1203.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1306 points

1380 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2566 points

2576 points

0.39% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

974 points

1049 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

934 points

1007 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

24.12 points

73% significantly higher Blender score

13.88 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1641 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1228 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

719 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

444 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

65 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

870th of 1,089

844th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-6500U vs A8-5500 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A8-5500 performs better than the Core i7-6500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6500U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. A Core i7-6500U CPU outputs less heat than a A8-5500 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-6500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.