AMD A8-9600 vs Intel Celeron G5905

Compare AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 4 core CPU vs Intel Celeron G Series 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 13.10
$ 60.87 significantly less expensive
$ 73.97

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1435 points
1456 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2697 points
3182 points
17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1088 points
4% slightly better multitasking score
1038 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1044 points
4% slightly better heavy workload score
996 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.59 points
6% slightly higher Blender score
18.47 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1498 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1263 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

611 points
738 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
100% significantly more threads
2

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz
3.5 GHz
12% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
58 W
12% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

828th of 1,089
820th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops
Celeron G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July
2020 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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A8-9600 vs Celeron G5905 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Celeron G5905 performs better than the A8-9600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-9600 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the A8-9600 has significantly more cores than the Celeron G5905. Indeed, the A8-9600 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Celeron G5905. It also has more threads than the Celeron G5905. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Celeron G5905 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the A8-9600. The Celeron G5905 outputs less heat than A8-9600 thanks to a slightly 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. For instance, the A8-9600 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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