Intel Core i7-7660U vs AMD A8-5500

Compare Intel 7th 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

1440 points

4% slightly better overall score

1380 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2728 points

5% slightly better gaming score

2576 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1086 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

1049 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1037 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

1007 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.65 points

99% significantly higher Blender score

13.88 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2293 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1228 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1141 points

156% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

444 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2285 points

150% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

911 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1149 points

204% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

377 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

65 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

825th of 1,089

844th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-7660U vs A8-5500 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-7660U is faster than the A8-5500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5500 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. A Core i7-7660U CPU outputs less heat than a A8-5500 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-7660U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.