AMD A8-5500 vs Intel Pentium G4520

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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Intel Pentium G4520

Price

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$ 590.00

$ 285.00

$ 305.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1380 points

1414 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2576 points

2950 points

14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points

1061 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points

1027 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1228 points

1594 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

444 points

838 points

88% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

51 W

27% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

844th of 1,089

833rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

A8-5500 vs Pentium G4520 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Pentium G4520 beats the A8-5500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5500 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the A8-5500 has more threads. The Pentium G4520 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.