AMD A10-7890K 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1356 points

1380 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2586 points

0.39% slightly better gaming score

2576 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1021 points

1049 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

978 points

1007 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

26.81 points

93% significantly higher Blender score

13.88 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

853rd 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

2016 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

A10-7890K vs A8-5500 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A8-5500 performs better than the A10-7890K. Despite this, the A10-7890K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. The A8-5500 outputs less heat than A10-7890K 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 A10-7890K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.