AMD A8-6600K 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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Intel Pentium G4520

Price

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$ 118.02

$ 166.98 significantly less expensive

$ 285.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1366 points

1414 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2599 points

2950 points

13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1031 points

1061 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

989 points

1027 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1128 points

1594 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

468 points

838 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (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

3.9 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

3.6 GHz

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

Identical

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

24.26 MiB

4752% significantly more L2 cache

0.5 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

848th 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

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR4-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

A8-6600K vs Pentium G4520 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium G4520 is faster than the A8-6600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-6600K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the A8-6600K has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A8-6600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium G4520. The info from our database shows that the A8-6600K has more L2 cache than the Pentium G4520

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 A8-6600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.