AMD A12-9720P vs Intel Pentium Silver N5000

Compare AMD 4 core CPU vs Intel Pentium Silver Series 4 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

1234 points

36% slightly better overall score

905 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2365 points

37% slightly better gaming score

1718 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

930 points

36% slightly better multitasking score

682 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

891 points

36% slightly better heavy workload score

652 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.71 points

65% significantly higher Blender score

9.48 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1084 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

870 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

485 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

354 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1190 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

860 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

529 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

345 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

6 W

150% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

891st of 1,089

982nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Silver Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

A12-9720P vs Pentium Silver N5000 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A12-9720P is faster than the Pentium Silver N5000. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver N5000 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. The Pentium Silver N5000 outputs less heat than A12-9720P thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the A12-9720P has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.