Intel Core i7-7500U vs AMD PRO A8-8670E

Core i7-7500U vs PRO A8-8670E comparison

In our benchmarks, the PRO A8-8670E beats the Core i7-7500U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-7500U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the PRO A8-8670E has significantly more cores than the Core i7-7500U. Indeed, the PRO A8-8670E has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-7500U. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the PRO A8-8670E has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-7500U.

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 i7-7500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.