AMD A8-5500 vs AMD Athlon PRO 300U. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  AMD A8-5000 AMD Athlon PRO 300
• Family
  AMD A AMD Athlon
• Generation
  2 6
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  3.2 GHz 2.4 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  4 2
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.7 GHz 3.3 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  3.7 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  - 2.4 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• DirectX Version
  11 12
• Execution units
  4 3
• Generation
  4 8
• GPU Frequency
  760 MHz 1000 MHz
• GPU name
  AMD Radeon HD 7560D AMD Radeon Vega 3 Graphics
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 2 GB
• Release date
  Q3/2012 Q1/2018
• Shader
  256 192
• Technology
  32 nm 14 nm

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  Decode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• VP8
  No Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Athlon PRO 300U and AMD A8-5500. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No Yes
• Max. Memory
  - 32 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR3-1866 DDR4-2400
• PCIe lanes
  - 12
• PCIe version
  - 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD A8-5500 and AMD Athlon PRO 300U Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  - 105 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  65 W 15 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD A8-5500 and AMD Athlon PRO 300U, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Trinity (Piledriver) Picasso (Zen+)
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L3-Cache
  4 MB 4 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2012 Q1/2019
• Socket
  FM2 FP5
• Technology
  32 nm 12 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V AMD-V, SVM