A8-5500B: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
AMD started A8-5500B sales 2 October 2012. Based on a Trinity architecture, this desktop processor is primarily aimed at home 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 ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Desktop processor | |
| Power efficiency | 1.47 | of 100.00 (Apple M4 (8 cores)) |
| Designer | AMD | |
| Architecture codename | Trinity (2012−2013) | |
| Release date | 2 October 2012 (14 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 cores | 4 (Quad-Core) | |
| Threads | 4 | |
| Base clock speed | 3.2 GHz | of 4.7 GHz (FX-9590) |
| Boost clock speed | 3.7 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| L1 cache | 128 KB (per core) | of 96 KB (Xeon 6990E+) |
| L2 cache | 1 MB (per core) | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
| L3 cache | 0 KB | of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X) |
| Chip lithography | 32 nm | of 1.8 nm (Core Ultra 5 332) |
| Die size | 246 mm2 | |
| Maximum case temperature (TCase) | 71 °C | of 105 °C (Core i7-5950HQ) |
| Number of transistors | 1,178 million | of 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 configuration | 1 | of 8 (Opteron 842) |
| Socket | FM2 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 65 Watt | of 600 Watt (EPYC 9996) |
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 types | DDR3 |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into A8-5500B.
| Integrated graphics card | AMD 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.
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. Other than that, Passmark measures multi-core performance.
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.
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.
Intel equivalent
It seems that there's no Intel equivalent for A8-5500B. The nearest candidate is Core i3-6300T, however, it's 0% faster and higher by 0 positions in our rating.
Similar processors
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Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for A8-5500B, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for A8-5500B in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 910 configurations using A8-5500B in our database.
