A8-5500B: specs and benchmarks

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A8-5500B
2012
4 cores / 4 threads, 65 Watt
2.50

A8-5500B provides poor benchmark performance at 2.50% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

AMD started A8-5500B sales 2 October 2012. This is a Trinity architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 4 cores and 4 threads, and is based on 32 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3700 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket FM2 processor with a TDP of 65 Watt and a maximum temperature of 71 °C. It supports DDR3 memory.

Primary details

A8-5500B processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking1757
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processor
Power efficiency3.64of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme)
Architecture codenameTrinity (2012−2013)
Release date2 October 2012 (12 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores4 (Quad-Core)
Threads4
Base clock speed3.2 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed3.7 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
L1 cache128 KB (per core)of 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache1 MB (per core)of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache0 KBof 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography32 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Die size246 mm2
Maximum case temperature (TCase)71 °Cof 105 °C (Core i7-5950HQ)
Number of transistors1,178 millionof 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-

Compatibility

Information on A8-5500B compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration1of 8 (Opteron 842)
SocketFM2
Power consumption (TDP)65 Wattof 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P)

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

AMD-V+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by A8-5500B's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3

Graphics specifications

General parameters of a GPU integrated into A8-5500B.

Integrated graphics cardAMD Radeon HD 7560D

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of A8-5500B. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

A8-5500B 2.50

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

A8-5500B 3967

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

A8-5500B 389

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

A8-5500B 945

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

A8-5500B's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop CPUs.


FX-8100 102
A8-5500B 100

Intel equivalent

According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to A8-5500B is Core i5-3570T, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 1 position in our ranking.

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