AMD A6-3620 vs AMD A8-5500B

Compare AMD 4 core CPU vs AMD 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD A8-5500B

Price

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$ 644.00

$ 49.01

$ 594.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1140 points

1173 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2097 points

2216 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

870 points

887 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

835 points

851 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

14.76 points

29% slightly higher Blender score

11.36 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1046 points

1255 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

312 points

451 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

803 points

971 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

259 points

399 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

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Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

914th of 1,089

906th of 1,089

A6-3620 vs A8-5500B comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-5500B is faster than the A6-3620. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A6-3620 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the A6-3620 has significantly more cores than the A8-5500B. Indeed, the A6-3620 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A8-5500B. But they both have 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. For instance, the A6-3620 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.