Intel Core i7-6600U vs AMD A8-5600K

Core i7-6600U vs A8-5600K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A8-5600K performs better than the Core i7-6600U. Despite this, the Core i7-6600U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. A Core i7-6600U 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.

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 i7-6600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.