A10-5800K: specs and benchmarks

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A10-5800K
2012
4 cores / 4 threads, 100 Watt
1.87

A10-5800K provides poor benchmark performance at 1.87% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

AMD started A10-5800K sales 2 October 2012 at a recommended price of $122. 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 max turbo frequency of 4200 MHz and an unlocked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket FM2 processor with a TDP of 100 Watt and a maximum temperature of 74 °C. It supports DDR3 memory.

Primary details

A10-5800K processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking1995
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.35
Market segmentDesktop processor
SeriesAMD A-Series (Desktop)
Power efficiency1.77of 100.00 (Core Ultra 7 164U)
Architecture codenameTrinity (2012−2013)
Release date2 October 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$122of 17,906 (Xeon Platinum 8280L)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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 speed3.8 GHzof 4.7 GHz (Ryzen 9 7900X)
Boost clock speed4.2 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 (Core Ultra 9 285K)
Die size246 mm2
Maximum case temperature (TCase)74 °Cof 105 °C (Core i7-5950HQ)
Number of transistors1,178 millionof 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-
Unlocked multiplier+

Compatibility

Information on A10-5800K 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 (Xeon Platinum 8454H)
SocketFM2
Power consumption (TDP)100 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 A10-5800K'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 A10-5800K.

Integrated graphics cardAMD Radeon HD 7660D (800 MHz)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of A10-5800K. 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.

A10-5800K 1.87

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.

A10-5800K 2964

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.

A10-5800K 451

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.

A10-5800K 1094

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

A10-5800K 3094

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

A10-5800K 9276

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

A10-5800K 4464

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

A10-5800K 3

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R11.5 is an old benchmark by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version loads a single thread with ray tracing to render a glossy room full of crystal spheres and light sources.

A10-5800K 1.03

TrueCrypt AES

TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.

A10-5800K 1.9

WinRAR 4.0

WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.

A10-5800K 2501

x264 encoding pass 2

x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.  

A10-5800K 22

x264 encoding pass 1

x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.  

A10-5800K 107

Geekbench 2

A10-5800K 6957

3DMark Fire Strike Physics

A10-5800K 3890

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

A10-5800K's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop CPUs.


FX-4300 100.53
A10-5800K 100
A8 PRO-7600B 99.47
Core i7-940 99.47

Intel equivalent

According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to A10-5800K is Core i7-930, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 1 position in our ranking.

Here are some closest Intel rivals to A10-5800K:

Core i7-860 101.07
A10-5800K 100
Core i7-940 99.47

Similar processors

Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for A10-5800K, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for A10-5800K in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 3324 configurations using A10-5800K in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
0.6% (20/3324)
RTX 4070 Ti GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
0.03% (1/3324)
RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 7900 XTX
0.03% (1/3324)
RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
0.09% (3/3324)
RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
0.03% (1/3324)
RTX 4070 GeForce RTX 4070
0.03% (1/3324)
RTX 3080 GeForce RTX 3080
0.09% (3/3324)
RX 7800 XT Radeon RX 7800 XT
0.06% (2/3324)
RTX 3070 Ti GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
0.06% (2/3324)
RTX 4060 Ti GeForce RTX 4060 Ti
0.03% (1/3324)

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