| Attribute |
AMD A8-5600K × |
AMD A8-5500 × |
| General Information | | |
| Brand | AMD | AMD |
| Series | AMD A | AMD A |
| Model | AMD A8-5600K | AMD A8-5500 |
| CPU Cores and Base Frequency | | |
| CPU Cores | 4 | 4 |
| Frequency (GHz) | 3.6 | 3.2 |
| CPU Threads | 4 | 4 |
| Core architecture | normal | normal |
| Hyperthreading | - | - |
| Overclocking | + | - |
| Turbo (1 Core) (GHz) | 3.9 | 3.7 |
| Turbo (4 Cores) (GHz) | 3.9 | 3.7 |
| Encryption | | |
| AES-NI | + | + |
| Hardware codec support | | |
| JPEG | Decode / Encode | Decode / Encode |
| h264 | Decode | Decode |
| h265 / HEVC (8 bit) | No | No |
| h265 / HEVC (10 bit) | No | No |
| VP8 | No | No |
| AV1 | No | No |
| VC-1 | Decode | Decode |
| VP9 | No | No |
| AVC | Decode | Decode |
| Internal Graphics | | |
| GPU name | AMD Radeon HD 7560D | AMD Radeon HD 7560D |
| GPU frequency (GHz) | 0.76 | 0.76 |
| Generation | 4 | 4 |
| DirectX Version | 11 | 11 |
| Execution units | 4 | 4 |
| Shader | 256 | 256 |
| Max. GPU Memory (GB) | 2 | 2 |
| Max. displays | 2 | 2 |
| GPU Release date (year) | 2012 | 2012 |
| Memory And PCIe | | |
| Memory type | DDR3-1866 | DDR3-1866 |
| ECC | - | - |
| Memory channels | 2 | 2 |
| Technical details | | |
| Release date (year) | 2012 | 2012 |
| Technology (Nm) | 32 | 32 |
| Socket | FM2 | FM2 |
| Virtualization | | |
| L3-Cache (MB) | 4 | 4 |
| Architecture | Trinity | Trinity |
| Instruction set (ISA) | x86-64 (64 bit) | x86-64 (64 bit) |
| Thermal Management | | |
| TDP (PL1) (W) | 100 | 65 |
| Benchmarks | | |
| iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS) | 389 | 389 |
| Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark | 4,359 | 4,052 |
| Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core) | 501 | 463 |
| Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 1,396 | 1,258 |
| Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core) | 280 | - |
| Cinebench R20 (Single-Core) | 193 | - |
| Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core) | 611 | - |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core) | 1 | 0.71 |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 3.2 | 2.78 |
| Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core) | 2,011 | 1,754 |
| Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 4,513 | 4,747 |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (iGPU, OpenGL) | 43 | - |