AMD Ryzen 7 5700U vs AMD A8-5500

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 8 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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$ 912.90

$ 590.00

$ 322.90 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4897 points

254% significantly better overall score

1380 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6449 points

150% significantly better gaming score

2576 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4413 points

320% significantly better multitasking score

1049 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4297 points

326% significantly better heavy workload score

1007 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

118.70 points

754% significantly higher Blender score

13.88 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5138 points

318% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1228 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1359 points

206% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

444 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5383 points

490% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

911 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1391 points

268% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

377 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

300% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

65 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

356th of 1,089

844th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 7 5700U vs A8-5500 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 5700U 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 7 5700U has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the A8-5500 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the A8-5500. A Ryzen 7 5700U CPU outputs less heat than a A8-5500 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 Ryzen 7 5700U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.