AMD A8-5500 Benchmark and Specs

AMD A8-5500 Processor benchmark and specs - 2 core AMD CPU rating. Is the A8-5500 good for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

1,380

Average score from 1 sample
High uncertainty

Performance

Average

Ranking

844th of 1,089

Popularity

503rd of 1,089

Samples

1 benchmarks

CPU benchmarks

Here are the performance results of this CPU in both the hardwareDB Benchmark and other benchmark utilities. Synthetic tests are an estimation of real-world performance using consistent and repeatable benchmarks.

Overall

Average

1,380

Gaming

Average

2,576

Multitasking

Average

1,049

Heavy Workloads

Average

1,007

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Alternative benchmarks

Here are some benchmark results using alternative testing software

Blender

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

Geekbench 5 (multi)

Multi threaded benchmark

1,228

Geekbench 5 (single)

Single threaded benchmark

444

Geekbench 6 (multi)

Multi threaded benchmark

911

Geekbench 6 (single)

Single threaded benchmark

377

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CPU Comparison

The AMD A8-5500 compared against popular alternatives. Compare against more CPUs with our CPU Comparison Tool.

AMD Ryzen 5 5500	5,930 points
AMD A8-5500	1,380 points
AMD A8-7600	1,357 points
Intel Core i7-7500U	1,350 points
AMD FX-4100	1,255 points
AMD A8-5500B	1,173 points
Intel Core i5-4310U	1,109 points

Specifications

Cores	2
Threads	4
TDP	65 W

AMD A8-5500

The A8-5500 is a 2 core CPU from AMD. This chip has an average overall score with 1380 points in our CPU benchmark. Our gaming benchmark shows that this CPU is an average processor for gaming, with a score of 2576 points. As for multitasking and heavy workloads, the A8-5500 scores 1049 points and 1007 points respectively. Indeed, this is an average rating for very heavy workloads.

The A8-5500 has 2 cores and 4 threads. This CPU makes use of simultaneous multithreading technology to improve performance on parallel tasks. Each physical CPU core is divided into multiple logical processors.

Power and thermals for the AMD A8-5500 CPU are a TDP (Thermal Design Power) of 65 watts. This measures the amount of heat the processor produces when running at full load. This isn't a measure of power consumption, but it's a good estimate.

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