AMD A8-5550M

The AMD A8-5550M operates with:

CPU Cores 4.

CPU Threads: 4.

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

Turbo: 3.10 GHz base 3.10 GHz all cores.

TDP: 35 W.

The processor is attached to:

CPU socket: FS1r2.

This version includes

4.00 MB of L3 cache on one chip

Supports 2 memory channels to support DDR3-1600 RAM and features PCIe Gen lanes.

Tjunction keeps below -- degrees C.

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

Technology: 32 nm

Virtualization AMD-V.

The product was released on Q2/2013.

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CPU generation and family

Name:

AMD A8-5550M

Family:

AMD A

CPU group:

AMD A8-5000M

Predecessor:

Segment:

Mobile

Generation:

Successor:

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Frequency:

2.10 GHz

Turbo (1 Core):

3.10 GHz

Turbo (64 Cores)::

Hyperthreading:

Core architecture:

normal

CPU Cores:

CPU Threads:

Overclocking:

Memory & PCIe

Memory type:

DDR3-1600

PCIe version:

Memory channels:

PCIe version:

PCIe lanes:

Encryption

AES-NI:

Yes

Internal Graphics

Memory type:

DDR3-1600

GPU name:

AMD Radeon HD 8550G

GPU frequency:

0.52 GHz

GPU (Turbo):

0.72 GHz

Generation:

DirectX Version:

Execution units:

Shader:

256

Max memory:

Max. displays:

Technology:

32 nm

Release date:

Q2/2013

Technical details

Instruction set (ISA):

x86-64 (64 bit)

Architecture:

Richland (Piledriver)

L2-Cache:

Virtualization:

AMD-V

L3-Cache:

4.00 MB

Release date:

Q2/2013

Socket:

FS1r2

Thermal Management

TDP (PL1):

35 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.

AMD FX-7600P 383 (20%)

Intel Celeron 3855U 383 (20%)

Intel Core i3-4010U 382 (20%)

AMD A8-5550M 381 (20%)

HiSilicon Kirin 960 381 (20%)

Intel Celeron 3215U 380 (20%)

AMD A4-4020 379 (20%)

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.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 953 (2%)

Intel Celeron J4025 952 (2%)

Intel Celeron G1620 951 (2%)

AMD A8-5550M 947 (2%)

Samsung Exynos 7420 945 (2%)

Intel Celeron N3450 923 (2%)

Intel Celeron G1610 918 (2%)

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 i5-4670 384 (4%)

Intel Core i5-4670K 384 (4%)

Intel Core i5-11400H 371 (4%)

AMD A8-5550M 369 (4%)

AMD A8-6500T 369 (4%)

AMD A8-5557M 369 (4%)

Intel Core i3-4370T 368 (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 A4-3330MX 1106 (16%)

AMD A8-4555M 1105 (16%)

AMD A10-4655M 1104 (16%)

AMD A8-5550M 1102 (16%)

AMD A6-4455M 1088 (16%)

AMD A4-3310MX 1082 (16%)

Intel Pentium N3710 1078 (16%)

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 Celeron 3765U 3234 (3%)

Intel Pentium 3825U 3234 (3%)

AMD A10-7300 3224 (3%)

AMD A8-5550M 3198 (3%)

AMD Phenom II X2 B57 3182 (3%)

AMD Phenom II X2 555 3182 (3%)

Intel Pentium N3540 3180 (3%)

Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Cinebench 11.5 is based on the Cinema 4D Suite, a software that is popular to generate forms and other stuff in 3D. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.

AMD A4-3400 0.79 (30%)

AMD A6-3650 0.79 (30%)

AMD Phenom II X3 710 0.79 (30%)

AMD A8-5550M 0.79 (30%)

AMD A10-4600M 0.78 (30%)

Intel Celeron 3855U 0.77 (30%)

Intel Xeon E5-2603 v3 0.77 (30%)

Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Cinebench 11.5 is based on the Cinema 4D Suite, a software that is popular to generate forms and other stuff in 3D. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.

AMD A10-4657M 2 (4%)

AMD A6-5200 1.99 (4%)

Intel Celeron G1620 1.99 (4%)

AMD A8-5550M 1.98 (4%)

Intel Celeron N3450 1.97 (4%)

AMD Phenom II X2 560 1.96 (4%)

Intel Core i3-4030U 1.95 (4%)

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AMD Phenom II X4 805 3115 (4%)

AMD Phenom II X4 905e 3115 (4%)

Intel Pentium G3450T 3115 (4%)

AMD A8-5550M 3093 (3%)

AMD A10-7350B 3083 (3%)

Intel Core i3-6006U 3079 (3%)

Intel Core i5-4302Y 3079 (3%)