Intel Core i7-860 vs AMD A8-5500B

Core i7-860 vs A8-5500B specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-860 is faster than the A8-5500B. Despite this, the A8-5500B has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-860 has significantly more cores than the A8-5500B. Indeed, the Core i7-860 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A8-5500B. It also has more threads than the A8-5500B. Our comparison shows that the A8-5500B has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-860.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-860 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.