AMD A8-5500B vs AMD Athlon II X3 445

A8-5500B vs Athlon II X3 445 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon II X3 445 performs better than the A8-5500B. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5500B in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X3 445 has significantly more cores with 3 cores whereas the A8-5500B has 2 cores. Despite this, the A8-5500B has more threads than the Athlon II X3 445. With our hardware info, we find that the A8-5500B has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon II X3 445. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the A8-5500B has significantly more L2 cache than the Athlon II X3 445

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 A8-5500B has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.