AMD A8-5550M vs Intel Pentium G2020

Compare AMD 4 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

$ 32.02
$ 2.97 slightly less expensive
$ 34.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

635 points
934 points
47% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1206 points
2034 points
68% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

483 points
666 points
37% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

466 points
640 points
37% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

884 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
802 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

336 points
474 points
41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

634 points
817 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

282 points
476 points
68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
100% significantly more threads
2

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
2.9 GHz
38% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
57% significantly lower TDP
55 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,051st of 1,089
972nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June
2013 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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Yes

A8-5550M vs Pentium G2020 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Pentium G2020 beats the A8-5550M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5550M in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the A8-5550M has significantly more cores than the Pentium G2020. Indeed, the A8-5550M has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium G2020. It also has more threads than the Pentium G2020. Our comparison shows that the Pentium G2020 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the A8-5550M. A A8-5550M CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium G2020 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the A8-5550M has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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