Turion II Neo K685 vs A8-5500

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Primary details

Comparing A8-5500 and Turion II Neo K685 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking2067not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processorLaptop
Seriesno dataAMD Turion II Neo
Power efficiency2.38no data
Architecture codenameTrinity (2012−2013)Geneva (2010)
Release date2 October 2012 (12 years ago)15 December 2010 (13 years ago)

Detailed specifications

A8-5500 and Turion II Neo K685 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 cores4 (Quad-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads42
Base clock speed3.2 GHzno data
Boost clock speed3.7 GHz1.8 GHz
Bus rateno data3200 MHz
L1 cache128 KB (per core)256 KB
L2 cache1 MB (per core)1 MB
L3 cache0 KBno data
Chip lithography32 nm45 nm
Die size246 mm2no data
Maximum case temperature (TCase)71 °Cno data
Number of transistors1,178 millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on A8-5500 and Turion II Neo K685 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 configuration1no data
SocketFM2S1g4
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by A8-5500 and Turion II Neo K685. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataMMX, 3DNow, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4A, AMD64, Enhanced Virus Protection, Virtualization
VirusProtect-+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by A8-5500 and Turion II Neo K685 are enumerated here.

AMD-V++

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by A8-5500 and Turion II Neo K685. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3DDR3

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardAMD Radeon HD 7560Dno data

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.

A8-5500 2609
+281%
Turion II Neo K685 684

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 October 2012 15 December 2010
Physical cores 4 2
Threads 4 2
Chip lithography 32 nm 45 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 15 Watt

A8-5500 has an age advantage of 1 year, 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads, and a 40.6% more advanced lithography process.

Turion II Neo K685, on the other hand, has 333.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between A8-5500 and Turion II Neo K685. We've got no test results to judge.

Note that A8-5500 is a desktop processor while Turion II Neo K685 is a notebook one.


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