AMD A8-5500 vs AMD A8-5600K

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 A8-5600K

Price

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$ 590.00

$ 69.01

$ 520.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1380 points

51% significantly better overall score

908 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2576 points

35% slightly better gaming score

1895 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points

58% significantly better multitasking score

662 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points

58% significantly better heavy workload score

637 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.88 points

18.11 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1228 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1047 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

444 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

439 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

911 points

1036 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

377 points

425 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

65 W

53% significantly lower TDP

100 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

844th of 1,089

979th of 1,089

A8-5500 vs A8-5600K specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A8-5500 performs better than the A8-5600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5600K in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. A A8-5500 CPU outputs less heat than a A8-5600K CPU because of its 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 A8-5500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.