AMD A8-5500B vs AMD Athlon 64 FX-60

Comparative analysis of AMD A8-5500B and AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD A8-5500B

• CPU is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 8 month(s) later
• 2 more cores, run more applications at once: 4 vs 2
• Around 23% higher clock speed: 3.2 GHz vs 2.6 GHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 32 nm vs 90 nm
• 4x more L1 cache, more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
• 2x more L2 cache, more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later
• Around 69% lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 110 Watt
• Around 46% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1327 vs 912
• 3.7x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 2611 vs 709

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD A8-5500B
CPU 2: AMD Athlon 64 FX-60

PassMark - Single thread mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	1327 912
PassMark - CPU mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	2611 709

Compare specifications (specs)