AMD A8-6500 vs Intel Celeron N5105

Compare AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs Intel Celeron N Series 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Celeron N5105

Price

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$ 284.69

$ 24.31 slightly less expensive

$ 309.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1387 points

1432 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2608 points

2704 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points

1086 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points

1043 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

20.09 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

18.65 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1029 points

1264 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

438 points

468 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

75% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

10 W

550% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

843rd of 1,089

829th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops

Celeron N Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June

2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR4 LPDDR4x

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

A8-6500 vs Celeron N5105 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Celeron N5105 beats the A8-6500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-6500 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Celeron N5105 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the A8-6500 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A8-6500 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Celeron N5105. The Celeron N5105 outputs less heat than A8-6500 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 A8-6500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.