AMD A8-5600K vs Intel Pentium G4400T

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 G4400T

Price

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$ 69.01

$ 5.99 slightly less expensive

$ 75.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

908 points

918 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1895 points

2014 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

662 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

651 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

637 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

622 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1047 points

1298 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

439 points

700 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1036 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1024 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

425 points

597 points

40% 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

35 W

185% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

979th of 1,089

975th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

A8-5600K vs Pentium G4400T benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium G4400T performs better than the A8-5600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5600K 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 Pentium G4400T 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.