AMD A8-5500 vs Intel Pentium G4400T

Compare AMD 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 590.00
$ 75.00
$ 515.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1380 points
50% significantly better overall score
918 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2576 points
27% slightly better gaming score
2014 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points
61% significantly better multitasking score
651 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points
61% significantly better heavy workload score
622 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1228 points
1298 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

444 points
700 points
57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

911 points
1024 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

377 points
597 points
58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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
35 W
85% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

853rd of 1,102
987th of 1,102

Family

The product line

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Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR4-1866

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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Yes

A8-5500 vs Pentium G4400T comparison

In our benchmarks, the A8-5500 beats the Pentium G4400T in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium G4400T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the A8-5500 has more threads. The Pentium G4400T outputs less heat than A8-5500 thanks to a significantly 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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