Intel Core i7-6500U vs AMD A8-5600K

Core i7-6500U vs A8-5600K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-5600K is faster than the Core i7-6500U. Despite this, the Core i7-6500U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. A Core i7-6500U CPU outputs less heat than a A8-5600K 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.