Ryzen 5 5500U vs A4-1250

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Primary details

Comparing A4-1250 and Ryzen 5 5500U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated915
Place by popularitynot in top-10014
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD A-SeriesAMD Lucienne (Zen 2, Ryzen 5000)
Power efficiencyno data51.67
Architecture codenameTemash (2013)Lucienne-U (Zen 2) (2021)
Release date23 May 2013 (11 years ago)12 January 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

A4-1250 and Ryzen 5 5500U basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores2 (Dual-core)6 (Hexa-Core)
Threads212
Base clock speedno data2.1 GHz
Boost clock speed1 GHz4 GHz
Multiplierno data21
L1 cache128K (per core)384 KB
L2 cache512K (per core)3 MB
L3 cache0 KB8 MB (shared)
Chip lithography32 nm7 nm
Die size246 mm2156 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno data105 °C
Maximum case temperature (TCase)90 °Cno data
Number of transistors1,178 million9,800 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on A4-1250 and Ryzen 5 5500U compatibility with other computer components: 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 configuration11
SocketFT3FP6
Power consumption (TDP)8 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by A4-1250 and Ryzen 5 5500U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions86x SSE (1, 2, 3, 3S, 4.1, 4.2, 4A),-64, AES, AVXMMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME
AES-NI++
FMA-+
AVX++

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by A4-1250 and Ryzen 5 5500U are enumerated here.

AMD-V++

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by A4-1250 and Ryzen 5 5500U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3DDR4
Maximum memory sizeno data64 GB

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon HD 8210AMD Radeon Vega 7

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by A4-1250 and Ryzen 5 5500U.

PCIe versionno data3.0
PCI Express lanesno data12

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.



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.

A4-1250 406
Ryzen 5 5500U 13014
+3105%

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.

A4-1250 97
Ryzen 5 5500U 1285
+1225%

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.

A4-1250 178
Ryzen 5 5500U 4529
+2444%

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.

A4-1250 663
Ryzen 5 5500U 5313
+701%

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.

A4-1250 1258
Ryzen 5 5500U 27437
+2081%

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.

A4-1250 741
Ryzen 5 5500U 9185
+1140%

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

A4-1250 111.2
Ryzen 5 5500U 6.22
+1688%

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.

A4-1250 0
Ryzen 5 5500U 11
+2328%

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

A4-1250 33
Ryzen 5 5500U 1247
+3737%

Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made 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 (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.

A4-1250 21
Ryzen 5 5500U 177
+763%

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.

A4-1250 0.2
Ryzen 5 5500U 1.99
+895%

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.

A4-1250 0.3
Ryzen 5 5500U 4.3
+1493%

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.  

A4-1250 3
Ryzen 5 5500U 45
+1484%

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.  

A4-1250 15
Ryzen 5 5500U 162
+985%

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.

A4-1250 464
Ryzen 5 5500U 3945
+751%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 May 2013 12 January 2021
Physical cores 2 6
Threads 2 12
Chip lithography 32 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 8 Watt 15 Watt

A4-1250 has 87.5% lower power consumption.

Ryzen 5 5500U, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 7 years, 200% more physical cores and 500% more threads, and a 357.1% more advanced lithography process.

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