Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 vs A8-5557M
Aggregate performance score
Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 outperforms A8-5557M by a whopping 1105% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
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Primary details
Comparing processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.
| Place in the ranking | 2660 | 679 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Series | AMD A-Series | AMD Strix Point (Zen 5/5c, Ryzen AI 3/5/7/9) |
| Power efficiency | 3.18 | 47.95 |
| Designer | AMD | AMD |
| Manufacturer | no data | TSMC |
| Architecture codename | Richland (2013−2014) | Strix Point (Zen 5) (2025) |
| Release date | 1 June 2013 (12 years ago) | 6 January 2025 (less than a year ago) |
Detailed specifications
A8-5557M and Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 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) | 8 (Octa-Core) |
| Threads | 4 | 16 AMD Zen 5 AMD Zen 5c |
| Base clock speed | 2.1 GHz | 2 GHz |
| Boost clock speed | 3.1 GHz | 5 GHz |
| Bus rate | no data | 54 MHz |
| L1 cache | 128 KB (per core) | 80 KB (per core) |
| L2 cache | 1 MB (per core) | 1 MB (per core) |
| L3 cache | 0 KB | 8 MB |
| Chip lithography | 32 nm | 4 nm |
| Die size | 246 mm2 | 233 mm2 |
| Maximum case temperature (TCase) | 71 °C | no data |
| Number of transistors | 1,178 million | no data |
| 64 bit support | + | + |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | no data |
Compatibility
Information on A8-5557M and Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 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 | FP8 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 35 Watt | 28 Watt |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by A8-5557M and Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360. 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 | USB 4, XDNA 2 NPU (50 TOPS), Secure Processor, SMT, AES, AVX, AVX2, AVX512, FMA3, MMX (+), SHA, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4A |
| AES-NI | + | + |
| FMA | + | - |
| AVX | + | + |
| Precision Boost 2 | no data | + |
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by A8-5557M and Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 are enumerated here.
| AMD-V | + | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by A8-5557M and Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR3 | DDR5 |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.
| Integrated graphics card | AMD Radeon HD 8550G (554 - 720 MHz) | AMD Radeon 880M |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by A8-5557M and Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360.
| PCIe version | no data | 4.0 |
| PCI Express lanes | no data | 16 |
Synthetic benchmarks
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 1.04 | 12.53 |
| Integrated graphics card | 0.98 | 18.32 |
| Recency | 1 June 2013 | 6 January 2025 |
| Physical cores | 4 | 8 |
| Threads | 4 | 16 AMD Zen 5 AMD Zen 5c |
| Chip lithography | 32 nm | 4 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 35 Watt | 28 Watt |
A8-5557M has -75% more threads.
Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360, on the other hand, has a 1104.8% higher aggregate performance score, 1769.4% faster integrated GPU, an age advantage of 11 years, 100% more physical cores, a 700% more advanced lithography process, and 25% lower power consumption.
The AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 is our recommended choice as it beats the AMD A8-5557M in performance tests.
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