AMD A8-5500 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800H. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile
• Family
  AMD A AMD Ryzen
• Generation
  2 4
• CPU group
  AMD A8-5000 AMD Ryzen 5000H

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
  3.20 GHz 3.20 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 8
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.70 GHz 4.40 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 16
• Hyperthreading
  No Yes
• 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 7560D AMD Radeon 8 Graphics (Renoir)
• GPU frequency
  0.76 GHz 1.75 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  4 8
• Shader
  256 512
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 2 GB
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Generation
  4 9
• DirectX Version
  11 12
• Technology
  32 nm 7 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2012 Q1/2020

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 7 5800H and AMD A8-5500. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1866 DDR4-3200
• Max. Memory
  64 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0
• PCIe lanes
  12

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD A8-5500 and AMD Ryzen 7 5800H to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  65 W 45 W
• TDP up
  -- 80 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 105 °C

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

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V AMD-V, SVM
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  -- 4.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 16.00 MB
• Architecture
  Trinity (Piledriver) Cezanne (Zen 3)
• Technology
  32 nm 7 nm
• Socket
  FM2 FP6
• Release date
  Q3/2012 Q2/2021