AMD FX-4100 vs AMD A8-5500B

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 A8-5500B

Price

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$ 390.00

$ 49.01

$ 340.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1255 points

6% slightly better overall score

1173 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2361 points

6% slightly better gaming score

2216 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

952 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

887 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

914 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

851 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.53 points

63% significantly higher Blender score

11.36 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1317 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1255 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

474 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

451 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1001 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

971 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

398 points

399 points

0.25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

4 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

882nd of 1,089

906th 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 A8-5500B comparison

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

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-4100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the A8-5500B. The info from our database shows that the A8-5500B has more L2 cache than the FX-4100

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