AMD A8-5500 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Price

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$ 590.00

$ 74.99

$ 515.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1380 points

5931 points

329% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2576 points

7969 points

209% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points

5267 points

402% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points

5102 points

406% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.88 points

141.88 points

921% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1228 points

7589 points

517% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

444 points

1833 points

312% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

911 points

7653 points

740% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

377 points

1872 points

396% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

844th of 1,089

256th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

A8-5500 vs Ryzen 5 5500 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5500 performs better than the A8-5500. 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 Ryzen 5 5500 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the A8-5500 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the A8-5500. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.