AMD A8-5500 vs AMD FX-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
1430 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2576 points
2728 points
5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points
1078 points
2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points
1035 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

844th of 1,089
830th of 1,089

A8-5500 vs FX-870K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-870K is faster than the A8-5500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5500 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and 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.

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