AMD A8-5500 vs AMD Athlon X4 870K

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs AMD 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

1400 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2576 points

2698 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points

Identical

1049 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points

0.10% slightly better heavy workload score

1006 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.88 points

18.63 points

34% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

911 points

1209 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

377 points

468 points

24% 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

46% significantly lower TDP

95 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

844th of 1,089

839th of 1,089

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

A8-5500 vs Athlon X4 870K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon X4 870K is faster than the A8-5500. 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. A A8-5500 CPU outputs less heat than a Athlon X4 870K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.