AMD A8-5500B vs AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs AMD Athlon Mobile 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

1173 points

1200 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2216 points

2572 points

16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

887 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

864 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

851 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

831 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

11.36 points

15.05 points

32% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

971 points

1350 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

399 points

778 points

94% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

39% slightly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

906th of 1,089

902nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Athlon Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

A8-5500B vs Athlon Silver 3050U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon Silver 3050U performs better than the A8-5500B. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5500B in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the A8-5500B has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A8-5500B has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon Silver 3050U. The info from our database shows that the A8-5500B has more L2 cache than the Athlon Silver 3050U

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.