AMD A8-5500 vs AMD A8-5500B

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

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AMD A8-5500B

Price

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$ 590.00

$ 49.01

$ 540.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1380 points

17% slightly better overall score

1173 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2576 points

16% slightly better gaming score

2216 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points

18% slightly better multitasking score

887 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points

18% slightly better heavy workload score

851 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.88 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

11.36 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1228 points

1255 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

444 points

451 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

911 points

971 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

377 points

399 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

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Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

844th of 1,089

906th of 1,089

A8-5500 vs A8-5500B specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-5500 is faster than the A8-5500B. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5500B 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 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. Indeed, the A8-5500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.