AMD A8-5600K vs Intel Pentium Silver J5040

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs Intel Pentium Silver Series 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

1286 points

41% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1895 points

2429 points

28% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

662 points

976 points

47% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

637 points

936 points

46% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.11 points

20.05 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1036 points

1114 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

425 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

417 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

100 W

10 W

900% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,005th of 1,118

898th of 1,118

Family

The product line

Pentium Silver Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

A8-5600K vs Pentium Silver J5040 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium Silver J5040 is faster than the A8-5600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5600K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Pentium Silver J5040 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the A8-5600K has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. The Pentium Silver J5040 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.