AMD A10-7850K 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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$ 134.99

$ 455.01 significantly less expensive

$ 590.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1343 points

1380 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2540 points

2576 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1015 points

1049 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

973 points

1007 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

16.30 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

13.88 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1597 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1228 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

523 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

444 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1137 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

911 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

449 points

19% 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

95 W

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

860th 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

2014 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

A10-7850K vs A8-5500 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the A8-5500 beats the A10-7850K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A10-7850K 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 A10-7850K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 A10-7850K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.