AMD A8-5600K vs Intel Celeron N5095

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs Intel 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

908 points
1427 points
57% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1895 points
2707 points
42% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

662 points
1081 points
63% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

637 points
1037 points
62% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.11 points
23% slightly higher Blender score
14.67 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

100 W
15 W
566% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

979th of 1,089
831st of 1,089

A8-5600K vs Celeron N5095 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Celeron N5095 is faster than the A8-5600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5600K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Celeron N5095 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the A8-5600K that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. The Celeron N5095 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.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the A8-5600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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