AMD A8-6500 vs Intel Pentium Silver N5030

Compare AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 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

1387 points
25% slightly better overall score
1107 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2608 points
21% slightly better gaming score
2151 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points
27% slightly better multitasking score
823 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points
28% slightly better heavy workload score
784 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

20.09 points
76% significantly higher Blender score
11.38 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1029 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
778 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

438 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
352 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
218% significantly higher clock speed
1.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
6 W
983% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

843rd of 1,089
922nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops
Pentium Silver Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June
2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

A8-6500 vs Pentium Silver N5030 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-6500 is faster than the Pentium Silver N5030. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver N5030 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Pentium Silver N5030 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the A8-6500 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the A8-6500 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N5030. The Pentium Silver N5030 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.

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