Intel Pentium G2030 vs AMD PRO A8-8600B

Compare Intel Pentium G Series 2 core CPU vs AMD PRO A-Series A8 APU for Laptops 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

993 points

19% slightly better overall score

834 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2170 points

31% slightly better gaming score

1650 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

707 points

14% slightly better multitasking score

617 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

679 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

589 points

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Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

824 points

982 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

483 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

411 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

87% significantly higher clock speed

1.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

55 W

15 W

266% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

952nd of 1,089

994th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium G Series

PRO A-Series A8 APU for Laptops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Pentium G2030 vs PRO A8-8600B comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium G2030 performs better than the PRO A8-8600B. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the PRO A8-8600B in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the PRO A8-8600B has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Pentium G2030 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the PRO A8-8600B.

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 Pentium G2030 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.