AMD A8-5500 vs Intel Celeron G4920

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs Intel Celeron G Series 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 590.00
$ 73.00
$ 517.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1380 points
39% slightly better overall score
986 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2576 points
20% slightly better gaming score
2145 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points
48% significantly better multitasking score
707 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points
48% significantly better heavy workload score
677 points

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Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
100% significantly more threads
2

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
54 W
20% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

844th of 1,089
954th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Celeron G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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Yes

A8-5500 vs Celeron G4920 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the A8-5500 beats the Celeron G4920 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron G4920 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the A8-5500 has more threads. The Celeron G4920 outputs less heat than A8-5500 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 A8-5500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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