AMD A8-Series A8-5500 - AD5500OKA44HJ / AD5500OKHJBOX
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AMD A8-5500 specifications
| General information | |
| Type | CPU / Microprocessor |
| Market segment | Desktop |
| Family | AMD A8-Series |
| Model number ? | A8-5500 |
| CPU part numbers | AD5500OKA44HJ is an OEM/tray microprocessor AD5500OKHJBOX is a boxed microprocessor |
| Frequency ? | 3200 MHz |
| Turbo frequency | 3700 MHz |
| Package | 904-pin lidded micro-PGA package |
| Socket | Socket FM2 |
| Size | 1.57" x 1.57" / 4cm x 4cm |
| Weight | 1.4oz / 39.3g (CPU) 9.6oz / 273.2g (box) |
| Fan/heatsink | Z7LH01R201 |
| Introduction date | July 2012 (shipped in OEM PCs) October 2, 2012 (boxed processors) |
| Price at introduction | $101 |
| Architecture / Microarchitecture | |
| Microarchitecture | Piledriver |
| Platform | Virgo |
| Processor core ? | Trinity |
| Core stepping ? | TN-A1 |
| CPUID | 610F01 |
| Manufacturing process | 0.032 micron 1303 million transistors |
| Die size | 246mm2 |
| Data width | 64 bit |
| The number of cores | 4 |
| The number of threads | 4 |
| Floating Point Unit | Integrated |
| Level 1 cache size ? | 2 x 64 KB 2-way associative shared instruction caches 4 x 16 KB 4-way associative data caches |
| Level 2 cache size ? | 2 x 2 MB 16-way associative shared caches |
| Level 3 cache size | None |
| Multiprocessing | Uniprocessor |
| Features |
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| Low power features |
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| Integrated peripherals / components | |
| Integrated graphics |
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| Memory controller |
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| Other peripherals |
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| Electrical / Thermal parameters | |
| V core ? | 0.825V - 1.475V |
| Maximum operating temperature ? | 71.3°C |
| Thermal Design Power ? | 65 Watt |
CPUs, related to AMD A8-5500
| Model | Cores / Threads |
Freq. | Turbo freq. |
L2 cache |
TDP | Features | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMD A8-Series family, Socket FM2 | |||||||
| A8-5500 | 4 / 4 | 3.2 GHz | 3.7 GHz | 4 MB | 65 Watt | $91 | |
| A8-5500B | 4 / 4 | 3.2 GHz | 3.7 GHz | 4 MB | 65 Watt | ||
| A8-5600K | 4 / 4 | 3.6 GHz | 3.9 GHz | 4 MB | 100 Watt | Unlock | $91 |
| Other families, Piledriver micro-architecture, Socket FM2 | |||||||
| Athlon X2 340 | 2 / 2 | 3.2 GHz | 3.6 GHz | 1 MB | 65 Watt | ||
| A4-5300 | 2 / 2 | 3.4 GHz | 3.6 GHz | 1 MB | 65 Watt | $47 | |
| A4-5300B | 2 / 2 | 3.4 GHz | 3.6 GHz | 1 MB | 65 Watt | ||
| A6-5400B | 2 / 2 | 3.6 GHz | 3.8 GHz | 1 MB | 65 Watt | ||
| A6-5400K | 2 / 2 | 3.6 GHz | 3.8 GHz | 1 MB | 65 Watt | Unlock | $57 |
| Athlon X4 750K | 4 / 4 | 3.4 GHz | 4 GHz | 4 MB | 100 Watt | ||
| FirePro A300 | 4 / 4 | 3.4 GHz | 4 GHz | 4 MB | 65 Watt | ||
| A10-5800B | 4 / 4 | 3.8 GHz | 4.2 GHz | 4 MB | 100 Watt | ||
| A10-5800K | 4 / 4 | 3.8 GHz | 4.2 GHz | 4 MB | 100 Watt | Unlock | $122 |
| FirePro A320 | 4 / 4 | 3.8 GHz | 4.2 GHz | 4 MB | 100 Watt | Unlock | |
• Highlighted numbers and features indicate whether specific processor performs better or worse than A8-5500
• Within each category, the CPUs are sorted from slower (at the top) to faster (at the bottom)
• The 'Price' column shows official AMD prices as of Apr 29, 2013. Prices for obsolete and tray-only processors are not provided.
• List of related CPUs is not complete.
• Features abbreviations:
Unlock - Unlocked multiplier
FAQ
Q: I have an AMD A8-5500 microprocessor. Is it possible to upgrade it?
A: Probably yes. CPU compatibility is determined by your motherboard. Please see CPU-Upgrade.com resource for CPU support list for your board.
AMD A8-5500 Overclocking
Sorry, overclocking information is not available at this time.
Pictures (5)
CPU-Z screenshot |
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| AMD A8-5500 CPU pictures | |
Front view. It's a standard-size box for "Trinity" desktop CPUs, but it is smaller than boxes of "Llano" processors. The packaging is now more narrow, while depth and height stayed the same. The box design differs from Llano, it now uses white background to indicate that the CPU is "locked". The processor still comes with a cheap aluminum heatsink/fan. |
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Side view. The processor supports dual-graphics, i.e. it can work together with a discrete card to get faster frame rates. The side of the box lists recommended cards for optimal dual-graphics performance: HD 6570 and HD 6670. |
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Back view. |
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News
AMD cuts prices of desktop CPUs
May 01, 2013: Earlier this week AMD announced new processors, expanding the line
of high-end FX CPUs with quad-core FX-4350 and six-core FX-6350.
It's not uncommon for AMD to lower prices when launching new products,
and this time it was not an exception. Based on the latest official AMD price list, the company cut prices of ten A-Series and FX-Series chips
by as much as 19%.
AMD business-class "Trinity" APUs are shipped in Lenovo desktop
Oct 08, 2012: Last week AMD launched second-generation "Trinity" APUs, from
entry-level A4-5300 with 2 CPU cores, and up to A10-5800K with twice
as many cores, 4 times larger cache, unlocked clock multiplier and 3
times as many GPU shaders. In addition to these consumer-oriented
products, several business-class "Trinity" processors
started
shipping in Lenovo ThinkCentre M78 small desktop PC.
Business-class APUs
will
be also available in HP Compaq Pro 6305 PC.
AMD introduces retail "Trinity" APUs for desktops
Oct 02, 2012: Today AMD officially introduced "Virgo" platform, consisting of six
different "Trinity" Accelerated Processing Units, and three
motherboard chipsets: AMD A55, A75 and A85X. The APUs integrate
2 or 4 CPU cores with discrete-class Radeon HD 7000-series graphics,
which allows them to provide good CPU and GPU performance at a
relatively low price point. As such, these processors are best suited for
entry-level to mid-class media and game systems.
AMD A-Series to launch on October 2, FX-Series on October 23
Sep 25, 2012: While Intel is almost done releasing new desktop processors for the rest
of the year, AMD has only started. Next month we will see new lineups,
based on the latest AMD Piledriver microarchitecture, which is a tweaked for
better performance and power consumption Bulldozer architecture. A-Series
"Trinity" Accelerated Processing Units will target budget / mainstream
segments of the desktop market, and,
according
to SemiAccurate, they will be introduced on October 2.
Pre-order prices of AMD "Trinity" CPUs
Sep 03, 2012: The first generation of AMD Accelerated Processing Units was
based on "Llano" core, that merged Star/K10-based CPU cores with Radeon HD
6000 graphics. The A series processors had average CPU performance,
however, thanks to integrated powerful GPU, they were well suited for graphics
and video applications. In the forth quarter 2012 "Llano" parts will be
replaced with faster second-generation "Trinity" APUs, featuring 1 or
2 Piledriver modules (2 or 4 CPU cores), and Radeon HD 7000-series
graphics unit.
Some details of AMD Piledriver CPUs
Aug 28, 2012: This fall AMD will release large number of new desktop processors,
built on the latest Piledriver microarchitecture. With the exception
of a couple of chips, details of upcoming lineup were known well ahead
of the launch. Yesterday
Expreview
published a slide, titled "2012 Consumer Platform Quick
Reference Guide for Desktops", that confirmed clock frequencies of
upcoming "Piledriver" products, and shed some light on supported
technologies.
AMD "Trinity" APUs pictured; rumored to launch on October 1
Aug 13, 2012: In May AMD launched second-generation Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) with
"Trinity" core. The launch included only mobile
chips, whereas desktop "Trinity" APUs were announced in June, and so
far appeared in only in desktop computers from such OEM manufacturers
as ASUS and HP. Retail "Trinity" products were delayed, and they are
expected in late October. Pictures of these accelerated units were
published today by Japanese website
Hermitage
Akihabara.
HP computers with AMD A8-5500 and A10-5700 APUs sold in US
Jul 01, 2012: In May AMD launched second generation of Accelerated Processing
Units (APU), based on "Trinity" core. The first "Trinity" products were mobile processors, that
were quickly followed by embedded chips. Desktop "Trinity" CPUs
were announced in June,
and their planned availability date in OEM systems was the end of June.
One of these OEM systems, HP Pavilion p7-1235 with AMD A8-5500
processor, is already offered in US. The HP desktop PC is currently
available
on Walmart and Best Buy
online websites.
AMD reveals details of desktop "Trinity" APUs
Jun 11, 2012: In May AMD unveiled first Accelerated Processing Units (APU), based
on "Trinity" core. The launch event didn't include any desktop Trinity
chips, and currently we don't have any reliable information on desktop
processor timeline. Last month's reports placed the desktop
"Trinity" launch in August, and more recent rumors suggest that the
APUs may be pushed back to September or October. Unlike the launch
date, specifications of forthcoming desktop processors were well-known
since February, and earlier last week they were published by AMD.
AMD to launch Brazos 2.0 in June, desktop APUs in August
May 14, 2012: This and next quarter AMD plans to release new generation of Accelerated Processing Units
(APUs). Soon to be available microprocessors will use enhanced
microarchitecture, and feature significantly improved on-chip graphics,
codenamed Graphics Core Next. There were a couple of reports in the past
month, placing the launch of first mobile APUs in the middle of May.
Release date for mobile APUs was
confirmed
last week by DigiTimes. They also revealed launch dates of desktop
APUs, and ultra low voltage processors from Brazos 2.0 platform.
AMD Trinity Desktop APU Specs Revealed
Feb 15, 2012: Our last report on the upcoming Trinity APU gave details of part numbers for the Trinity range, including Brazos 2.0 and Vishera. Donanimhaber have now leaked further details, with a slide showing specs for the Trinity A-Series APUs. Trinity will use a new socket, FM2, which is similar to FM1 with a few pins repositioned, and it will have a Piledriver CPU core, which is the updated Bulldozer core.
Benchmarks
Benchmark tools
- For additional benchmarks, comparing multi-threaded performance of this microprocessor with other A8-Series CPUs and the fastest AMD and Intel x86 chips, please visit AMD A8-5500 benchmarks page.
AMD A8-5500 benchmarks
The graphs below show up to 10 processors with aproximately the same level of performance in different types of applications. All processors were tested at nominal frequency (not overclocked), with stock heatsink and default BIOS settings. To see how the A8-5500 compares to other CPUs please see benchmark tools section above.
Benchmarked processor
| CPU ID: | 610F01 |
| CPU vendor string: | AuthenticAMD |
| CPU name string: | AMD A8-5500 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics |
Integer performance
| Part number | Result | |
|---|---|---|
| 103.8% | ||
| 103.6% | ||
| 100.4% | ||
| 100.3% | ||
| 100.2% | ||
| 100% | ||
| 96.9% | ||
| 96.6% | ||
| 93.3% | ||
| 93.1% | ||
| 93% |
Floating Point performance
| Part number | Result | |
|---|---|---|
| 110.4% | ||
| 108.1% | ||
| 105.7% | ||
| 105.7% | ||
| 105.6% | ||
| 105.5% | ||
| 102.7% | ||
| 101.1% | ||
| 100% | ||
| 82.6% | ||
| 54.1% |
MMX / SSE / SSE2 performance
| Part number | Result | |
|---|---|---|
| 102.3% | ||
| 101.7% | ||
| 101.7% | ||
| 101.7% | ||
| 101.2% | ||
| 100% | ||
| 99.7% | ||
| 98.6% | ||
| 98.5% | ||
| 98.5% | ||
| 97.9% |
Memory-intensive program performance
| Part number | Result | |
|---|---|---|
| 101.4% | ||
| 100.9% | ||
| 100.8% | ||
| 100.3% | ||
| 100.1% | ||
| 100% | ||
| 100% | ||
| 100% | ||
| 98.9% | ||
| 98% | ||
| 97.6% |
CPU ID (1)
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CPUID features of AMD A8-5500
NOTE: The CPU ID information below was taken from one CPU and may include features that are not present in all different steppings of the AMD A8-Series A8-5500 CPU.
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| General information | |
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| Vendor: | AuthenticAMD |
| Processor name (BIOS): | AMD A8-5500 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics |
| Cores: | 4 |
| Compute units: | 2 |
| Logical processors: | 4 |
| Processor type: | Original OEM Processor |
| Core stepping: | TN-A1 |
| CPUID signature: | 610F01 |
| Family: | 21 (015h) |
| Model: | 16 (010h) |
| Stepping: | 1 (01h) |
| Socket: | FM2 |
| Cache: | L1 data | L1 instruction | L2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Size: | 4 x 16 KB | 2 x 64 KB | 2 x 2 MB |
| Associativity: | 4-way set associative |
2-way set associative |
16-way set associative |
| Line size: | 64 bytes | 64 bytes | 64 bytes |
| Lines per tag: | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Comments: | 1 cache per 2 cores | 1 cache per 2 cores |
| Instruction set extensions | Additional instructions | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| MMX | Advanced Bit manipulation | ||
| AMD extensions to MMX | CLFLUSH | ||
| SSE | CMOV | ||
| SSE2 | CMPXCHG16B | ||
| SSE3 | CMPXCHG8B | ||
| SSSE3 | FXSAVE/FXRSTORE | ||
| SSE4A | MONITOR/MWAIT | ||
| SSE4.1 | PCLMULDQ | ||
| SSE4.2 | POPCNT | ||
| AES | PREFETCH/PREFETCHW | ||
| AVX | RDTSCP | ||
| BMI | SKINIT / STGI support | ||
| F16C | SYSCALL/SYSRET | ||
| FMA | SYSENTER/SYSEXIT | ||
| FMA4 | XSAVE / XRESTORE states | ||
| TBM | |||
| XOP | |||
| Major features | Other features | ||
| On-chip Floating Point Unit | 1 GB large page support | ||
| 64-bit / Intel 64 | 100MHz multiplier control | ||
| NX bit/XD-bit | 128-bit SSE instructions | ||
| Secure Virtual Machine (Virtualization) | 36-bit page-size extensions | ||
| Turbo Core | Advanced programmable interrupt controller | ||
| PowerNow! / Cool'n'Quiet | Core multi-processing legacy mode | ||
| Debugging extensions | |||
| Extended APIC space | |||
| Hardware P-state control | |||
| Hardware thermal control | |||
| Instruction based sampling | |||
| LAHF / SAHF support in 64-bit mode | |||
| LBR virtualization | |||
| LOCK MOV CR0 means MOV CR8 | |||
| Lightweight profiling support | |||
| Machine check architecture | |||
| Machine check exception | |||
| Memory-type range registers | |||
| Misaligned SSE mode | |||
| Model-specific registers | |||
| Nested page tables | |||
| OS visible workaround | |||
| Page attribute table | |||
| Page global extension | |||
| Page-size extensions (4MB pages) | |||
| Physical address extensions | |||
| SVM lock | |||
| Support for NRIP save | |||
| THERMTRIP | |||
| TSC rate is ensured to be invariant across all states | |||
| Temperature sensor | |||
| Time stamp counter | |||
| Virtual 8086-mode enhancements | |||
| Watchdog timer support | |||
Comments (4)
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Comments: 4
AMD A8-5500
2012-06-30 22:48:37
Posted by: Joe
this processor is out now in Hp PC at Walmart, and several other stores!
P7
2012-07-13 19:29:45
Posted by: MC
Just received HP P7-1235 from Staples.com at Fantastic price and with Win8 upgrade rebate too! Awesome timing! Now I can return older-tech HP desktop some Frys salesman steered me into without minding their 15% restocking fee and sales trip.
Amd A8-5500
2012-07-24 00:02:25
Posted by: Danny
Really great processor, COD Black ops used to lag with my old Athlon X2 250. Now it runs flawlessly, in very high settings. The werid thing about this APU is that it heats up rather quickly I mean from 64F to 140F in just seconds when playing. THEN!! After 2 hours of playing non stop, I get out of black ops and within 30 seconds the temp drops to 64F. Really amazing I would say havent seen anything like that with past CPUs
turbo boost doesn't work
2013-04-18 15:36:45
Posted by: Finlandguy
my pc has this processor but it's turbo frequency is only 3500 mhz . Whats wrong ?
Response: The processor does not run at 3.7 Ghz when 3 or 4 cores are active. If you have only two one core running, then you will need to use better thermal paste, improve you case ventilation, or get better fan/heatsink, preferably not the stock one.
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