Intel Pentium 6405U vs AMD A8-5500B

Pentium 6405U vs A8-5500B comparison

In our benchmarks, the A8-5500B beats the Pentium 6405U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium 6405U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads.

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 Pentium 6405U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.