AMD A8-5500B

The AMD A8-5500B operates with:

CPU Cores 4.

CPU Threads: 4.

Performance-enhancing, system-enhancing technology that works faster and saves battery with:

Turbo: 3.70 GHz base 3.70 GHz all cores.

TDP: 65 W.

The processor is attached to:

CPU socket: FM2.

This version includes

4.00 MB of L3 cache on one chip

Supports 2 memory channels to support DDR3-1866 RAM and features PCIe Gen lanes.

Tjunction keeps below -- degrees C.

In particular, Trinity (Piledriver) Architecture is enhanced with:

Technology: 32 nm

Virtualization AMD-V.

The product was released on Q4/2012.

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CPU generation and family

Name:

AMD A8-5500B

Family:

AMD A

CPU group:

AMD A8-5000

Predecessor:

Segment:

Desktop / Server

Generation:

Successor:

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Frequency:

3.20 GHz

Turbo (1 Core):

3.70 GHz

Turbo (64 Cores)::

Hyperthreading:

Core architecture:

normal

CPU Cores:

CPU Threads:

Overclocking:

Memory & PCIe

Memory type:

DDR3-1866

PCIe version:

Memory channels:

PCIe version:

PCIe lanes:

Encryption

AES-NI:

Yes

Internal Graphics

Memory type:

DDR3-1866

GPU name:

AMD Radeon HD 7560D

GPU frequency:

0.76 GHz

GPU (Turbo):

No turbo

Generation:

DirectX Version:

Execution units:

Shader:

256

Max memory:

Max. displays:

Technology:

32 nm

Release date:

Q3/2012

Technical details

Instruction set (ISA):

x86-64 (64 bit)

Architecture:

Trinity (Piledriver)

L2-Cache:

Virtualization:

AMD-V

L3-Cache:

4.00 MB

Release date:

Q4/2012

Socket:

FM2

Thermal Management

TDP (PL1):

65 W

TDP (PL2):

TDP Up:

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.

Intel Celeron J4105 414 (22%)

Intel Pentium 3805U 412 (22%)

Intel Xeon E5-2603 v3 412 (22%)

AMD A8-5500B 411 (22%)

Intel Celeron G1610T 411 (22%)

AMD Phenom II X2 555 409 (22%)

AMD A10-5750M 407 (22%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.

Intel Core i5-4210U 1150 (3%)

Intel Core i3-4100M 1147 (3%)

Samsung Exynos 8890 1147 (3%)

AMD A8-5500B 1141 (3%)

Intel Core i3-3220T 1141 (3%)

Samsung Exynos 9609 1139 (3%)

Intel Pentium G3220 1138 (3%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.

Intel Core i5-4300M 400 (4%)

Intel Core i5-4330M 400 (4%)

Intel Core i7-4770K 400 (4%)

AMD A8-5500B 389 (4%)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 389 (4%)

AMD A8-5600K 389 (4%)

AMD A8-5500 389 (4%)

Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 3 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.

AMD Phenom II X2 521 1888 (27%)

AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 1883 (27%)

AMD Phenom II X4 975 1876 (27%)

AMD A8-5500B 1872 (27%)

AMD Phenom II X4 970 1869 (27%)

AMD FX-4200 1869 (27%)

AMD FX-4100 1862 (27%)

Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 3 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.

Intel Core i7-3517U 5156 (5%)

Intel Core i7-4500U 5155 (5%)

Intel Core i3-3250T 5124 (5%)

AMD A8-5500B 5086 (5%)

Intel Pentium G3430 5074 (5%)

Intel Core i3-4100M 5057 (5%)

Intel Pentium G3460 5054 (5%)

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Intel Core i5-5250U 3678 (4%)

Intel Pentium G3450 3652 (4%)

AMD FX-7500 3616 (4%)

AMD A8-5500B 3615 (4%)

Intel Core m7-6Y75 3606 (4%)

Intel Core i3-6100U 3604 (4%)

Intel Core i5-4350U 3604 (4%)