Intel Pentium 2020M vs AMD FX-9800P

Compare Intel Pentium 2000 Series 2 core CPU vs AMD 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

766 points

0.39% slightly better overall score

763 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1683 points

17% slightly better gaming score

1432 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

544 points

581 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

523 points

559 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

10.63 points

17.61 points

65% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

711 points

1113 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

409 points

514 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

667 points

1121 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

391 points

495 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

2.7 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,013th of 1,089

1,014th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium 2000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Pentium 2020M vs FX-9800P comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium 2020M is faster than the FX-9800P. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-9800P in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the FX-9800P has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Pentium 2020M that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium 2020M. Our comparison shows that the FX-9800P has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium 2020M.

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 Pentium 2020M has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.