AMD A8-5500 vs AMD Athlon II X4 635

A8-5500 vs Athlon II X4 635 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-5500 is faster than the Athlon II X4 635. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 635 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Athlon II X4 635 has significantly more cores than the A8-5500. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 635 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A8-5500. But they both have the same number of threads.

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.