AMD Athlon PRO 300U vs Intel Core i7-5500U

AMD Athlon PRO 300U
AMD Socket FP5MOBILE
2400 MHz / Cores: 2 / Apr 2019
AMD Athlon PRO 300U
Intel Core i7-5500U
MOBILE
2400 MHz / Cores: 2 / unknown
Intel Core i7-5500U

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Athlon PRO 300U
    116%
  • Intel Core i7-5500U
    100%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Athlon PRO 300U
    104%
  • Intel Core i7-5500U
    100%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Athlon PRO 300U
    127%
  • Intel Core i7-5500U
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Athlon PRO 300U

Much higher multi threaded performance (around 27% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
Around 16% higher average synthetic performance.

Reasons to consider Intel Core i7-5500U

None

AMD Athlon PRO 300U

Gaming

HWBench recommends AMD Athlon PRO 300U

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

AMD Athlon PRO 300U

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD Athlon PRO 300U

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

AMD Athlon PRO 300UIntel Core i7-5500U
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4A
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
AES
AVX
AVX2
BMI1
BMI2
SHA
F16C
FMA3
AMD64
EVP
AMD-V
SMAP
SMEP
SMT
Precision Boost
EIST
64-bit
XD bit
VT-x
Smart Cache
ADX
RDSEED
PREFETCHW
HTT

Architecture

AMD Athlon PRO 300UIntel Core i7-5500U
ArchitectureAMD ZenvsIntel_Broadwell
MarketMobilevsMobile
Memory SupportDDR4 Dual-channelvsDDR3
CodenameRaven Ridge 2vsBroadwell-U
Release DateApr 2019vsunknown

Cores

AMD Athlon PRO 300UIntel Core i7-5500U
Cores2vs2
Threads4vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsRadeon Vega 3vsIntel HD 5500

Cache

AMD Athlon PRO 300UIntel Core i7-5500U
L1 Cache128K (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512K (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache4MB (shared)vs4096 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Athlon PRO 300UIntel Core i7-5500U
SocketAMD Socket FP5vs
Max Case TempN/Avs105°C
Packagevs
Die Sizeunknownvsunknown
Process14 nmvs14 nm

Performance

AMD Athlon PRO 300UIntel Core i7-5500U
Cpu Frequency2400 MHzvs2400 MHz
Turbo Clock3300 MHzvs3000 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
VoltageN/Avsunknown
TDP15 Wvs15 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon PRO 300U
    3630 points
  • Intel Core i7-5500U
    3360 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon PRO 300U
    6441 points
  • Intel Core i7-5500U
    6451 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Athlon PRO 300U (simulated)
    126.5
  • Intel Core i7-5500U
    121

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD Athlon PRO 300U (simulated)
    368.4
  • Intel Core i7-5500U
    289

points - higher is better