AMD A6-5350M vs AMD A8-5550M

Compare AMD A6-Series APU for Laptops 2 core CPU vs AMD 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD A8-5550M

Price

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$ 33.95

$ 32.02

$ 1.93 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

641 points

0.94% slightly better overall score

635 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1391 points

15% slightly better gaming score

1206 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

460 points

483 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

442 points

466 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

488 points

884 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

345 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

336 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

443 points

634 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

315 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

282 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz

38% slightly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

12% slightly higher turbo speed

3.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

Identical

35 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB

512 KiB

100% significantly more L1 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,049th of 1,089

1,051st of 1,089

Family

The product line

A6-Series APU for Laptops

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

A6-5350M vs A8-5550M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A6-5350M is faster than the A8-5550M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5550M in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the A8-5550M has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the A6-5350M that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the A6-5350M. Our comparison shows that the A6-5350M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the A8-5550M. Also, the A6-5350M has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the A6-5350M has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.