AMD A8-5500 vs AMD Athlon II X3 400e

Comparative analysis of AMD A8-5500 and AMD Athlon II X3 400e processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Compatibility, Virtualization. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark, Geekbench 4 - Single Core, Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD A8-5500

• CPU is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 0 month(s) later
• 1 more cores, run more applications at once: 4 vs 3
• Around 45% higher clock speed: 3.2 GHz vs 2.2 GHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 32 nm vs 45 nm
• Around 33% more L1 cache; more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
• 2.7x more L2 cache, more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later
• Around 47% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1334 vs 908
• Around 98% better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 2610 vs 1320

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon II X3 400e

• Around 44% lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 65 Watt
• 3.1x better performance in Geekbench 4 - Single Core: 1398 vs 455
• 2.5x better performance in Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core: 3137 vs 1243

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD A8-5500
CPU 2: AMD Athlon II X3 400e

PassMark - Single thread mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	1334 908
PassMark - CPU mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	2610 1320
Geekbench 4 - Single Core	CPU 1 CPU 2	455 1398
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core	CPU 1 CPU 2	1243 3137

Compare specifications (specs)