Intel Pentium G3258 vs AMD A8-5500B

Compare Intel Pentium G Series 2 core CPU vs AMD 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

1144 points

1173 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2506 points

13% slightly better gaming score

2216 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

813 points

887 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

780 points

851 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

25.97 points

128% significantly higher Blender score

11.36 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1343 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1255 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

763 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

451 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1095 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

971 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

629 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

399 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

3.2 GHz

Identical

3.2 GHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

913th of 1,089

906th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Pentium G3258 vs A8-5500B specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A8-5500B performs better than the Pentium G3258. Despite this, the Pentium G3258 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the A8-5500B has more threads. In terms of clock speed, the Pentium G3258 and A8-5500B are identical in this regard.

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 G3258 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.