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AMD A8-6500 vs Apple M5 Pro (15-CPU 16-GPU)
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Benchmarks
Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks
Single-core performance
Multi-core performance
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
AMD A8-6500
5 %
AMD Radeon HD 8570D
Apple M5 Pro (16 Core)
More benchmarks
Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries
427 entries
Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries
1,989 entries
Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries
1,927 entries
Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries
2,512 entries
Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries
2,483 entries
FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries
2,219 entries
PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries
2,504 entries
Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries
1,113 entries
Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries
1,110 entries
Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries
945 entries
Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries
941 entries
Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries
826 entries
Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries
837 entries
Specifications
At a glance
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Wischen
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AMD A8-6500 | Apple M5 Pro (15-CPU 16-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| Family | AMD A (112) | Apple M series (38) |
| CPU group | AMD A8-6000 (4) | Apple M5 (6) |
| Architecture | Richland (Piledriver) | M5 |
| Technology | 32 nm | 3 nm |
| Segment | Desktop | Notebook |
| Socket | FM2 | |
| Predecessor | Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU) | |
| Successor |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
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AMD A8-6500 | Apple M5 Pro (15-CPU 16-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| CPU Cores / Threads | 4 / 4 | 15 / 15 |
| Hyperthreading / SMT | ✗ | ✗ |
| Core architecture | normal | hybrid (big.LITTLE) |
| Core Cluster 1: | 4x 3.50 - 4.10 GHz |
5x Super-Core 0.91 - 4.61 GHz |
| Core Cluster 2: | 10x Performance-Core 0.90 - 3.05 GHz |
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| L2-Cache | 22.00 MB | |
| L3-Cache | 4.00 MB | |
| Overclocking | ✓ | ✗ |
Integrated graphics (iGPU)
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Wischen
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AMD A8-6500 | Apple M5 Pro (15-CPU 16-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| GPU name | AMD Radeon HD 8570D | Apple M5 Pro (16 Core) |
| GPU frequency | 0.84 GHz | 0.34 - 1.90 GHz |
| CUs / Shader | 4 / 256 | 256 / 2048 |
| Raytracing | ✗ | ✓ |
| Max. displays | 2 | 4 |
| Max. GPU Memory | 2 GB | 48 GB |
| Technology | 32 nm | 3 nm |
| Release date | Q2/2013 | Q1/2026 |
NPU AI performance
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Wischen
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AMD A8-6500 | Apple M5 Pro (15-CPU 16-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| AI hardware | Apple Neural Engine | |
| AI specifications | 16 Neural cores @ 60 TOPS | |
| NPU + CPU + iGPU |
Memory & PCIe
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Wischen
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AMD A8-6500 | Apple M5 Pro (15-CPU 16-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| Memory | DDR3-1866 (29.9 GB/s) | LPDDR5X-9600 (307.2 GB/s) |
| Max. Memory | 48 GB | |
| Memory channels | 2 | 4 |
| ECC | No | No |
| PCIe | 5.0 x 8 | |
| PCIe Bandwidth | 31.5 GB/s |
Thermal Management
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AMD A8-6500 | Apple M5 Pro (15-CPU 16-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| TDP | 65 W | 45 W |
| TDP (PL2) | ||
| TDP up | ||
| TDP down | 35 W | |
| T. junction max. | 100 °C |
Technical details
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AMD A8-6500 | Apple M5 Pro (15-CPU 16-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| Chip design | Unknown | Monolithic |
| AES-NI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Operating systems | Windows 10, Linux | macOS, iPadOS |
| Instruction set | x86-64 (64 bit) | Armv9.2-A (64 bit) |
| ISA extensions | SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4 | Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation, AVX2, SME |
| Release date | Q2/2013 | Q1/2026 |
| Release price | 85 $ | |
| Documents |
User Reviews
Your rating
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