AMD FX-4100 vs AMD A8-5500

Compare AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 2 core CPU vs AMD 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD A8-5500

Price

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$ 390.00

$ 200.00 significantly less expensive

$ 590.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1255 points

1380 points

9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2361 points

2576 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

952 points

1049 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

914 points

1007 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.53 points

33% slightly higher Blender score

13.88 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1317 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1228 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

474 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

444 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1001 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

911 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

398 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

377 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

882nd of 1,089

844th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-4100 vs A8-5500 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-5500 is faster than the FX-4100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4100 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.

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 FX-4100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.