Intel Core i7-7500U vs AMD A8-9600

Core i7-7500U vs A8-9600 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-9600 is faster than the Core i7-7500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7500U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the A8-9600 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-7500U. Indeed, the A8-9600 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-7500U. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the A8-9600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-7500U. Despite this, the Core i7-7500U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-7500U CPU outputs less heat than a A8-9600 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 i7-7500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.