AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs AMD A8-5500

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 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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$ 219.80

$ 370.20 significantly less expensive

$ 590.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7869 points

470% significantly better overall score

1380 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9478 points

267% significantly better gaming score

2576 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7328 points

598% significantly better multitasking score

1049 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7169 points

611% significantly better heavy workload score

1007 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

213.11 points

1434% significantly higher Blender score

13.88 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10085 points

721% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1228 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2119 points

377% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

444 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10211 points

1020% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

911 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2193 points

481% 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

105 W

65 W

61% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

151st of 1,089

844th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 7 5800X vs A8-5500 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5800X beats the A8-5500 in overall performance. 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 5800X has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the A8-5500 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the A8-5500. The A8-5500 outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5800X thanks to a 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 5800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.