AMD A10-6800K vs AMD A8-5500

Compare AMD A10-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs AMD 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD A8-5500

Price

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$ 467.04

$ 122.96 slightly less expensive

$ 590.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1559 points

12% slightly better overall score

1380 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2915 points

13% slightly better gaming score

2576 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1183 points

12% slightly better multitasking score

1049 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1134 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

1007 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.26 points

13.88 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1136 points

1228 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

479 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

444 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1139 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

911 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

477 points

26% slightly 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

100 W

65 W

53% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

797th of 1,089

844th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A10-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

A10-6800K vs A8-5500 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A10-6800K is faster than the A8-5500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5500 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. The A8-5500 outputs less heat than A10-6800K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 A10-6800K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.