Intel Core i7-6600U vs AMD A8-5500B

Core i7-6600U vs A8-5500B benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A8-5500B performs better than the Core i7-6600U. Despite this, the Core i7-6600U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A8-5500B has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6600U.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-6600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.