AMD A8-9600 vs Intel Pentium Gold G5400

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

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Intel Pentium Gold G5400

Price

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$ 13.10

$ 66.89 significantly less expensive

$ 79.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1435 points

1704 points

18% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2697 points

3348 points

24% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1088 points

1270 points

16% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1044 points

1218 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.59 points

28.98 points

47% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1359 points

1598 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

569 points

759 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1498 points

1523 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

611 points

743 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

3.7 GHz

19% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

54 W

20% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

0.5 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

828th of 1,089

774th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops

Pentium Gold Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July

2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

A8-9600 vs Pentium Gold G5400 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium Gold G5400 is faster 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 Pentium Gold G5400. Indeed, the A8-9600 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium Gold G5400. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Pentium Gold G5400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the A8-9600. The Pentium Gold G5400 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. In terms of cache, the A8-9600 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Pentium Gold G5400

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. For instance, the A8-9600 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.