AMD A8-6500 vs Intel Celeron G5905

Compare AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs Intel Celeron G Series 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Celeron G5905

Price

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$ 284.69

$ 73.97

$ 210.72 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1387 points

1456 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2608 points

3182 points

22% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

1038 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

996 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

20.09 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

18.47 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1029 points

1263 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

438 points

738 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

Identical

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

58 W

12% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

843rd of 1,089

820th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops

Celeron G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June

2020 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

A8-6500 vs Celeron G5905 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Celeron G5905 performs better than the A8-6500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-6500 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the A8-6500 has more threads. According to our data, the A8-6500 and Celeron G5905 have the same clock speed. The Celeron G5905 outputs less heat than A8-6500 thanks to a slightly 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 A8-6500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.