| Attribute |
AMD A8-5550M × | 
AMD Athlon 5350 × |
| General Information | | |
| Brand | AMD | AMD |
| Series | AMD A | AMD Athlon |
| Model | AMD A8-5550M | AMD Athlon 5350 |
| CPU Cores and Base Frequency | | |
| CPU Cores | 4 | 4 |
| Frequency (GHz) | 2.1 | 2.05 |
| CPU Threads | 4 | 4 |
| Core architecture | normal | normal |
| Hyperthreading | - | - |
| Overclocking | - | + |
| Turbo (1 Core) (GHz) | 3.1 | - |
| Turbo (4 Cores) (GHz) | 3.1 | - |
| 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 8550G | AMD Radeon HD 8400 |
| GPU frequency (GHz) | 0.52 | 0.6 |
| GPU (Turbo) (GHz) | 0.72 | - |
| Generation | 5 | 5 |
| DirectX Version | 11 | 11.1 |
| Execution units | 4 | 2 |
| Shader | 256 | 128 |
| Max. GPU Memory (GB) | 2 | 2 |
| Max. displays | 2 | 2 |
| GPU Release date (year) | 2013 | 2013 |
| Memory And PCIe | | |
| Memory type | DDR3-1600 | DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM |
| ECC | - | - |
| Memory channels | 2 | 1 |
| Technical details | | |
| Release date (year) | 2013 | 2014 |
| Technology (Nm) | 32 | - |
| Socket | FS1r2 | AM1 |
| Virtualization | | |
| L3-Cache (MB) | 4 | 2 |
| Architecture | Richland | Kabini |
| Instruction set (ISA) | x86-64 (64 bit) | x86-64 (64 bit) |
| Thermal Management | | |
| TDP (PL1) (W) | 35 | 25 |
| Benchmarks | | |
| iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS) | 369 | 154 |
| Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark | 3,093 | 2,640 |
| Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core) | 381 | 246 |
| Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 947 | 807 |
| Cinebench R15 (Single-Core) | - | 44 |
| Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core) | - | 162 |
| Cinebench R20 (Single-Core) | - | 95 |
| Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core) | - | 336 |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core) | 0.79 | 0.52 |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 1.98 | 2.02 |
| Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core) | 1,102 | 1,123 |
| Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 3,198 | 3,640 |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (iGPU, OpenGL) | - | 14 |