AMD A8-5500 vs Intel Core i5-11400F. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  AMD A8-5000 Intel Core i 11000
• Family
  AMD A Intel Core i5
• Generation
  2 11
• Predecessor
  - Intel Core i5-10400F
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server

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 2.6 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  4 6
• CPU Threads
  4 12
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.7 GHz 4.4 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  3.7 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (6 Cores)
  - 4.2 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 -
• Execution units
  4 -
• Generation
  4 -
• GPU Frequency
  760 MHz -
• GPU name
  AMD Radeon HD 7560D None
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo -
• Max. displays
  2 -
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB -
• Release date
  Q3/2012 -
• Shader
  256 -
• Technology
  32 nm -

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-11400F 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 DDR4-3200
• PCIe lanes
  - 20
• PCIe version
  - 4.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD A8-5500 and Intel Core i5-11400F 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 i5-11400F, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Trinity (Piledriver) Rocket Lake S
• 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, AVX-512
• L2-Cache
  - 3 MB
• L3-Cache
  4 MB 12 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2012 Q1/2021
• Socket
  FM2 LGA 1200
• Technology
  32 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d