AMD A8-5500 vs AMD Athlon II X4 651

A8-5500 vs Athlon II X4 651 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Athlon II X4 651 beats the A8-5500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5500 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X4 651 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the A8-5500 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the A8-5500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.