AMD A8-5600K vs Intel Celeron G1840

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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Intel Celeron G1840

Price

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$ 69.01

$ 16.97

$ 52.04 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

908 points

935 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1895 points

2047 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

662 points

665 points

0.45% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

637 points

638 points

0.16% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1047 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1021 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

439 points

557 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1036 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

828 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

425 points

491 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (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

100 W

53 W

88% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

979th of 1,089

971st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Celeron G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

A8-5600K vs Celeron G1840 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Celeron G1840 beats the A8-5600K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5600K in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the A8-5600K has more threads. The Celeron G1840 outputs less heat than A8-5600K 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 A8-5600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.