AMD A8-7650K vs Intel Pentium G4600

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1322 points
1693 points
28% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2531 points
3224 points
27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

994 points
1278 points
28% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

952 points
1227 points
28% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.32 points
20.87 points
13% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1450 points
1542 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

490 points
729 points
48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1052 points
1520 points
44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

422 points
738 points
74% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
3.6 GHz
9% 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

256 KiB
100% 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

863rd of 1,089
777th 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 January
2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

A8-7650K vs Pentium G4600 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Pentium G4600 beats the A8-7650K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-7650K in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium G4600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the A8-7650K. The Pentium G4600 outputs less heat than A8-7650K 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 A8-7650K has significantly more L2 cache than the Pentium G4600

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 A8-7650K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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