AMD A8-5500 vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

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

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AMD Athlon II X4 640

Price

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$ 590.00

$ 48.02

$ 541.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1380 points

1463 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2576 points

2727 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points

1106 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points

1058 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.88 points

15.73 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1228 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

943 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

444 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

308 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

911 points

948 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

377 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

313 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

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Ranking in the hardwareDB database

844th of 1,089

819th of 1,089

A8-5500 vs Athlon II X4 640 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Athlon II X4 640 beats the A8-5500 in overall performance. Despite this, the A8-5500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the A8-5500 has 2 cores. 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.