AMD A8-5600K vs Intel Celeron G4920

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 G4920

Price

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$ 69.01

$ 3.99 slightly less expensive

$ 73.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

908 points

986 points

8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1895 points

2145 points

13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

662 points

707 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

637 points

677 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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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

54 W

85% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

979th of 1,089

954th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Celeron G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

A8-5600K vs Celeron G4920 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the A8-5600K beats the Celeron G4920 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron G4920 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the A8-5600K has more threads. The Celeron G4920 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.