AMD A8-5500 vs Intel Core i9-9900. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  AMD A8-5000 Intel Core i 9000
• Family
  AMD A Intel Core i9
• Generation
  2 9
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Successor
  - Intel Core i9-10900

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 3.1 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  4 8
• CPU Threads
  4 16
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.7 GHz 5 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  3.7 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
  - 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 24
• Generation
  4 9.5
• GPU Frequency
  760 MHz 350 MHz
• GPU name
  AMD Radeon HD 7560D Intel UHD Graphics 630
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo 1200 MHz
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 64 GB
• Release date
  Q3/2012 Q4/2017
• 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 Intel Core i9-9900 and AMD A8-5500. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Max. Memory
  - 128 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR3-1866 DDR4-2666
• PCIe lanes
  - 16
• PCIe version
  - 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD A8-5500 and Intel Core i9-9900 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
  - 100 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  65 W 65 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD A8-5500 and Intel Core i9-9900, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Trinity (Piledriver) Coffee Lake S Refresh
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  4 MB 16 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2012 Q2/2019
• Socket
  FM2 LGA 1151-2
• Technology
  32 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d