AMD A8-5600K vs Intel Pentium E5800

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs Intel Pentium 2 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

1% slightly better overall score

895 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1895 points

1948 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

662 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

639 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

637 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

613 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.11 points

186% significantly higher Blender score

6.33 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1036 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

561 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

425 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

353 points

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

65 W

53% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

979th of 1,089

985th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 November

A8-5600K vs Pentium E5800 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-5600K is faster than the Pentium E5800. Despite this, the Pentium E5800 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the A8-5600K has more threads. The Pentium E5800 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.

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. Indeed, the A8-5600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.