AMD A8-5557M

The AMD A8-5557M 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: FP2.

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 A8-5557M

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:

FP2

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.

Intel Celeron N4120 452 (24%)

AMD A4-6300 449 (24%)

Intel Pentium Silver J5005 446 (24%)

AMD A8-5557M 442 (23%)

Intel Celeron 3865U 441 (23%)

AMD Phenom II X4 965 441 (23%)

AMD Phenom II X4 970 439 (23%)

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 i3-L13G4 1210 (3%)

Intel Celeron N5100 1209 (3%)

Intel Pentium G3250 1206 (3%)

AMD A8-5557M 1201 (3%)

Intel Pentium G3440 1199 (3%)

Apple A9X 1198 (3%)

Intel Core i5-2520M 1196 (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 i5-4670 384 (4%)

Intel Core i5-4670K 384 (4%)

Intel Core i5-11400H 371 (4%)

AMD A8-5557M 369 (4%)

AMD A8-6500T 369 (4%)

AMD A8-5550M 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 Phenom II X4 940 1602 (23%)

AMD Phenom II X4 B95 1602 (23%)

Intel Core i3-4010U 1601 (23%)

AMD A8-5557M 1591 (23%)

Intel Pentium 4405Y 1581 (23%)

AMD A8-7100 1554 (22%)

AMD A10-7400P 1554 (22%)

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 M-5Y10 3515 (4%)

Intel Core M-5Y10a 3515 (4%)

Intel Core M-5Y10c 3515 (4%)

AMD A8-5557M 3498 (4%)

AMD Phenom II X2 521 3480 (4%)

AMD A8-3510MX 3450 (4%)

Intel Pentium 4405Y 3446 (4%)

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 A4-4000 0.81 (31%)

AMD A6-4400M 0.8 (31%)

AMD A9-9410 0.8 (31%)

AMD A8-5557M 0.8 (31%)

AMD Phenom II X4 910e 0.79 (30%)

AMD Phenom II X4 910 0.79 (30%)

AMD Phenom II X4 810 0.79 (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.

Intel Celeron G1610 1.92 (3%)

Intel Atom x7-Z8750 1.91 (3%)

Intel Pentium N3710 1.91 (3%)

AMD A8-5557M 1.9 (3%)

Intel Pentium N3540 1.9 (3%)

AMD Phenom II X2 B57 1.9 (3%)

AMD Phenom II X2 555 1.9 (3%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

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Intel Core M-5Y51 2900 (3%)

Intel Core M-5Y70 2900 (3%)

AMD A6-3620 2896 (3%)

AMD A8-5557M 2892 (3%)

Intel Celeron G1850 2875 (3%)

AMD A8-3550MX 2866 (3%)

Intel Core i3-4158U 2864 (3%)