AMD A8-5500 vs AMD A8-9600

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD A8-9600

Price

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$ 590.00

$ 13.10

$ 576.90 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1380 points

1435 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2576 points

2697 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points

1088 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points

1044 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.88 points

19.59 points

41% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1228 points

1359 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

444 points

569 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

911 points

1498 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

377 points

611 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

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

828th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

A8-5500 vs A8-9600 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-9600 is faster than the A8-5500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5500 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the A8-9600 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the A8-5500 that has 2 cores. But they both have 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.