AMD A8-5557M vs AMD E-350D. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  AMD A AMD E
• Generation
  3 1
• CPU group
  AMD A8-5000M AMD E/E1/E2-1000

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  2.10 GHz 1.60 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.10 GHz No turbo
• CPU Threads
  4 2
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal normal

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

• GPU name
  AMD Radeon HD 8550G AMD Radeon HD 6310
• GPU frequency
  0.52 GHz 0.49 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.72 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  4 1
• Shader
  256 80
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 1 GB
• Max. displays
  2 2
• Generation
  5 3
• DirectX Version
  11 11
• Technology
  32 nm 40 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2013 Q4/2010

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

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• h264
  Decode Decode
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode Decode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD E-350D and AMD A8-5557M. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1600 DDR3-1600
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 1

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD A8-5557M and AMD E-350D to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  35 W 18 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD A8-5557M and AMD A8-5557M, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V AMD-V
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 1.00 MB
• Architecture
  Richland (Piledriver) Zacate (Bobcat)
• Technology
  32 nm 32 nm
• Socket
  FP2 BGA 413
• Release date
  Q2/2013 Q3/2010