AMD Athlon II X3 445 vs Intel Pentium Gold G5420T

Compare AMD 3 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1177 points
3% slightly better overall score
1137 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2305 points
4% slightly better gaming score
2204 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

880 points
2% slightly better multitasking score
855 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

846 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score
821 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

676 points
1388 points
105% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

302 points
679 points
124% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

3
49% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

3
4
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz
3.19 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache
0.5 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

904th of 1,089
915th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Pentium Gold Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR4-2400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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Yes

Athlon II X3 445 vs Pentium Gold G5420T benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon II X3 445 performs better than the Pentium Gold G5420T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Gold G5420T in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Athlon II X3 445 has significantly more cores than the Pentium Gold G5420T. Indeed, the Athlon II X3 445 has 3 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium Gold G5420T. Despite this, the Pentium Gold G5420T has more threads than the Athlon II X3 445. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium Gold G5420T has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon II X3 445. The info from our database shows that the Athlon II X3 445 has more L2 cache than the Pentium Gold G5420T

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Athlon II X3 445 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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