AMD A8-5500 vs AMD A8-7650K

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1380 points

4% slightly better overall score

1322 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2576 points

1% slightly better gaming score

2531 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

994 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

952 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.88 points

18.32 points

31% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1228 points

1450 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

444 points

490 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

911 points

1052 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

377 points

422 points

11% 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

Identical

65 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

844th of 1,089

863rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

A8-5500 vs A8-7650K comparison

In our benchmarks, the A8-7650K beats the A8-5500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5500 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. 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.

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.