AMD A8-7600 vs Intel Pentium Silver J5040

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

1357 points
5% slightly better overall score
1289 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2567 points
5% slightly better gaming score
2434 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1027 points
5% slightly better multitasking score
978 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

986 points
5% slightly better heavy workload score
939 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.02 points
20.05 points
11% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1045 points
1114 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

429 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
417 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

3.1 GHz
55% 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

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

852nd of 1,089
872nd 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

2014 July
2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

A8-7600 vs Pentium Silver J5040 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A8-7600 performs better than the Pentium Silver J5040. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver J5040 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Pentium Silver J5040 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the A8-7600 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A8-7600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver J5040. The Pentium Silver J5040 outputs less heat than A8-7600 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 A8-7600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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