Intel Core i7-6650U vs AMD A8-5500B

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1184 points
0.94% slightly better overall score
1173 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2342 points
5% slightly better gaming score
2216 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

881 points
887 points
0.68% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

844 points
851 points
0.83% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

21.68 points
90% significantly higher Blender score
11.36 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1963 points
56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1255 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

931 points
106% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
451 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2036 points
109% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
971 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1001 points
150% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
399 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.2 GHz
3.2 GHz
45% significantly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

903rd of 1,089
906th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-6650U vs A8-5500B benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-6650U performs better than the A8-5500B. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5500B in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A8-5500B has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6650U.

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 i7-6650U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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