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AMD A8-5550M vs Apple M1

Last updated: 2026-07-03

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 22 %

AMD A8-5550M

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 17 %

AMD A8-5550M

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.10 GHz

381

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,742

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.10 GHz

947

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,650

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

AMD Radeon HD 8550G

369

Apple M1 (8 Core)

2,610

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	AMD A8-5550M	Apple M1
Family	AMD A (112)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	AMD A8-5000M (3)	Apple M1 (9)
Architecture	Richland (Piledriver)	M1
Technology	32 nm	5 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket	FS1r2
Predecessor
Successor		Apple M2

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	AMD A8-5550M	Apple M1
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x 2.10 - 3.10 GHz	4x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		4x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz
L2-Cache		16.00 MB
L3-Cache	4.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	AMD A8-5550M	Apple M1
GPU name	AMD Radeon HD 8550G	Apple M1 (8 Core)
GPU frequency	0.52 - 0.72 GHz	0.39 - 1.30 GHz
CUs / Shader	4 / 256	128 / 1024
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	2
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB	8 GB
Technology	32 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q2/2013	Q4/2020

NPU AI performance

Wischen	AMD A8-5550M	Apple M1
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	AMD A8-5550M	Apple M1
Memory	DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory		16 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe		4.0
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	AMD A8-5550M	Apple M1
TDP	35 W	18 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up		20 W
TDP down		10 W
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	AMD A8-5550M	Apple M1
Chip design	Unknown	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems		macOS
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv8.5-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q2/2013	Q4/2020
Release price
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User Reviews

Your rating

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AMD A8-5550M
4C / 4T · 2.10 - 3.10 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M1
8C / 8T · 0.60 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★