AMD A8-5500 vs Intel Pentium Silver N5000

A8-5500 vs Pentium Silver N5000 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-5500 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Pentium Silver N5000 has significantly more cores than the A8-5500. Indeed, the Pentium Silver N5000 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A8-5500. But they both have the same number of threads. The Pentium Silver N5000 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.