AMD A10-7890K vs Intel Pentium Gold G5400

Compare AMD A10-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs Intel Pentium Gold Series 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1356 points
1704 points
25% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2586 points
3348 points
29% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1021 points
1270 points
24% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

978 points
1218 points
24% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

26.81 points
28.98 points
8% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.1 GHz
10% slightly higher clock speed
3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
54 W
75% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
100% significantly more L1 cache
128 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
700% significantly more L2 cache
0.5 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

853rd of 1,089
774th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A10-Series APU for Desktops
Pentium Gold Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 January
2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

A10-7890K vs Pentium Gold G5400 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Pentium Gold G5400 beats the A10-7890K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A10-7890K in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A10-7890K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Gold G5400. The Pentium Gold G5400 outputs less heat than A10-7890K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the A10-7890K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Pentium Gold G5400

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the A10-7890K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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