A8-5500 vs FX-4300 benchmarks
In our benchmarks, the A8-5500 beats the FX-4300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4300 in all gaming tests too.
When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. A A8-5500 CPU outputs less heat than a FX-4300 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.
Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the A8-5500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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