AMD A8-5600K vs Intel Pentium G3260

Compare AMD 2 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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Intel Pentium G3260

Price

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$ 69.01

$ 49.00

$ 20.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

908 points

1206 points

32% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1895 points

2612 points

37% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

662 points

863 points

30% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

637 points

828 points

29% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.11 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

15.34 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1047 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

919 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

439 points

563 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1036 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

995 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

425 points

583 points

37% 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

899th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

A8-5600K vs Pentium G3260 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the A8-5600K beats the Pentium G3260 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium G3260 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the A8-5600K has more threads. The Pentium G3260 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.