AMD A10-8700P vs Intel Pentium G2120

Compare AMD A10-Series APU for Laptops 2 core CPU vs Intel Pentium G 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

1000 points

1029 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1959 points

2254 points

15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

747 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

733 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

717 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

703 points

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Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

951 points

1053 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

351 points

577 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1076 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

914 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

487 points

527 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.8 GHz

3.1 GHz

72% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

57% significantly lower TDP

55 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

947th of 1,089

940th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A10-Series APU for Laptops

Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

A10-8700P vs Pentium G2120 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium G2120 performs better than the A10-8700P. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A10-8700P in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the A10-8700P has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Pentium G2120 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the A10-8700P. A A10-8700P CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium G2120 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the A10-8700P has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.