AMD A6-5200 vs Intel Pentium Silver N5000

Compare AMD A6-Series APU for Desktops 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

709 points

905 points

27% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1313 points

1718 points

30% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

540 points

682 points

26% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

518 points

652 points

25% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

7.43 points

9.48 points

27% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

843 points

1232 points

46% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

559 points

870 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

202 points

354 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

587 points

860 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

205 points

345 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz

81% significantly higher clock speed

1.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

25 W

6 W

316% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,027th of 1,089

982nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

A6-Series APU for Desktops

Pentium Silver Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

A6-5200 vs Pentium Silver N5000 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium Silver N5000 is faster than the A6-5200. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A6-5200 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 A6-5200 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N5000. The Pentium Silver N5000 outputs less heat than A6-5200 thanks to a 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. For instance, the A6-5200 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.