A4-5050 vs A8-4555M

Place in performance ranking	2425	2434
Place by popularity	not in top-100	57
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	AMD A-Series	AMD A-Series
Architecture codename	Trinity (2012−2013)	Kabini (2013−2014)
Release date	27 September 2012 (11 years ago)	1 February 2014 (10 years ago)
Current price	$9.49	$144

Detailed Specifications

A8-4555M and A4-5050 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 cores	4 (Quad-Core)	4 (Quad-Core)
Threads	4	4
Base clock speed	1.6 GHz	no data
Boost clock speed	2.4 GHz	1.5 GHz
L1 cache	192 KB	128K (per core)
L2 cache	4 MB (shared)	512K (per core)
L3 cache	0 KB	0 KB
Chip lithography	32 nm	32 nm
Die size	246 mm²	246 mm²
Maximum case temperature (TCase)	100 °C	90 °C
Number of transistors	1,178 million	1,178 million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-
Unlocked multiplier	No	No

Compatibility

Information on A8-4555M and A4-5050 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 configuration	1	1
Socket	FP2	FT3
Power consumption (TDP)	19 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by A8-4555M and A4-5050. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	86x SSE (1, 2, 3, 3S, 4.1, 4.2, 4A),-64, AES, AVX, FMA	86x SSE (1, 2, 3, 3S, 4.1, 4.2, 4A),-64, AES, AVX, DDR3L-1600
AES-NI	+	+
FMA	+	no data
AVX	+	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by A8-4555M and A4-5050 are enumerated here.

AMD-V

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by A8-4555M and A4-5050. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

unknown Dual-channel

DDR3

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon HD 7600G

AMD Radeon HD 8330

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score 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.

A8-4555M 0.85

A4-5050 0.85

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.

Benchmark coverage: 68%

A8-4555M 1341
+1%

A4-5050 1328

A8-4555M outperforms A4-5050 by 1% in Passmark.