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Benchmarks for the AMD A8-5500 APU can be found below. Release dates, price and performance comparisons are also listed when available. This is made using thousands of PerformanceTest benchmark results and is updated daily.
Is the AMD A8-5500 APU Good for Gaming?
This is a fairly old CPU that is no longer competitive with newer CPUs. [More ...]
Description:
Class: Desktop
Socket: FM2
Clockspeed: 3.2 GHz
Turbo Speed: 3.7 GHz
Cores: 4 (in 2 physical modules)
Typical TDP: 65 W
Cache per CPU Package:
L1 Instruction Cache: 4 x 16 KB
L1 Data Cache: 4 x 64 KB
L2 Cache: 4 x 2048 KB
Other names: AMD A8-5500 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics
CPU First Seen on Charts: Q2 2012
CPUmark/$Price: 44.42
Overall Rank:
2883rd fastest in multithreading out of 5157 CPUs
2763rd fastest in single threading out of 5157 CPUs
839th fastest in out of 1449 Desktop CPUs
Last Price Change: $58.95 USD (2020-06-17)
Integer Math | 17,516 MOps/Sec |
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Floating Point Math | 4,699 MOps/Sec |
Find Prime Numbers | 11 Million Primes/Sec |
Random String Sorting | 5,432 Thousand Strings/Sec |
Data Encryption | 792.5 MBytes/Sec |
Data Compression | 43,625 KBytes/Sec |
Physics | 238 Frames/Sec |
Extended Instructions | 1,088 Million Matrices/Sec |
Single Thread | 1,336 MOps/Sec |
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Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
---|---|---|
Intel Core i9-13900K | 58,652 | |
Intel Core i9-12900K | 41,295 | |
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 39,015 | |
Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 22,143 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 21,861 | |
Intel Core i5-12400F | 19,487 | |
Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 18,164 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 17,704 | |
Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 15,652 | |
Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 14,146 | |
AMD A8-5500 APU | 2,619 |
Processor | CPU Mark / $Price | |
---|---|---|
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 236.08 | |
Intel Core i5-12400F | 196.84 | |
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 162.57 | |
Intel Core i9-13900K | 152.34 | |
Intel Core i9-12900K | 136.17 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 131.36 | |
Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 49.23 | |
AMD A8-5500 APU | 44.42 | |
Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | NA | |
Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | NA | |
Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | NA |
Processor | Average Thread Rating | |
---|---|---|
Intel Core i9-13900K | 4,610 | |
Intel Core i9-12900K | 4,138 | |
Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 3,900 | |
Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 3,836 | |
Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 3,680 | |
Intel Core i5-12400F | 3,477 | |
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 3,469 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 3,364 | |
Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 2,921 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 2,563 | |
AMD A8-5500 APU | 1,336 |
Baseline | CPU Mark | |
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BL2624112 - May 14 2025 | 2889 | |
BL2622641 - May 14 2025 | 2646 | |
BL2601882 - May 05 2025 | 2883 | |
BL2601879 - May 05 2025 | 2883 | |
BL2590949 - Apr 30 2025 | 2776 |
Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
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AMD A8-5500 APU | 2,619 | |
AMD FX-4300 Quad-Core vs AMD A8-5500 APU | 2,985 (+14.0%) | |
AMD A8-5600K APU vs AMD A8-5500 APU | 2,869 (+9.6%) | |
Intel Core i3-3220 @ 3.30GHz vs AMD A8-5500 APU | 2,275 (-13.1%) | |
AMD A10-5700 APU vs AMD A8-5500 APU | 2,744 (+4.8%) | |
AMD FX-4130 Quad-Core vs AMD A8-5500 APU | 2,709 (+3.4%) | |
AMD A8-3820 APU vs AMD A8-5500 APU | 2,189 (-16.4%) | |
AMD A6-3670 APU vs AMD A8-5500 APU | 2,186 (-16.5%) | |
AMD Athlon II X4 640 vs AMD A8-5500 APU | 2,266 (-13.5%) | |
AMD A10-5800K APU vs AMD A8-5500 APU | 2,958 (+12.9%) | |
AMD Phenom II X4 965 vs AMD A8-5500 APU | 2,661 (+1.6%) | |
AMD A8-5500B APU vs AMD A8-5500 APU | 2,588 (-1.2%) | |
Intel Core i5-750 @ 2.67GHz vs AMD A8-5500 APU | 2,537 (-3.1%) |
Processor | Relative Gaming Score | |
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AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D | 12,452 | |
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D | 12,150 | |
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D | 11,297 | |
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D | 10,843 | |
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K | 10,586 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D | 10,483 | |
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 10,276 | |
AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D | 9,809 | |
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D | 9,803 | |
Intel Core Ultra 5 245K | 9,639 | |
Intel Core Ultra 7 265K | 9,526 | |
Intel Core Ultra 9 285 | 9,517 | |
AMD A8-5500 APU | 447 |