AMD A8-6500 vs Intel Pentium G4520

Compare AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 284.69
$ 0.31 slightly less expensive
$ 285.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1387 points
1414 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2608 points
2950 points
13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points
1061 points
1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points
1027 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1350 points
1594 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

496 points
838 points
68% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
100% significantly more threads
2

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
3.6 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
51 W
27% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

192 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache
128 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
700% significantly more L2 cache
0.5 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

843rd of 1,089
833rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops
Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June
2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR4-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

A8-6500 vs Pentium G4520 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium G4520 performs better than the A8-6500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-6500 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the A8-6500 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium G4520 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the A8-6500. The Pentium G4520 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the A8-6500 has significantly more L2 cache than the Pentium G4520

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the A8-6500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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