Intel Pentium G4520 vs AMD Athlon II X4 635

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

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 285.00
$ 58.02
$ 226.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1414 points
2% slightly better overall score
1373 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2950 points
17% slightly better gaming score
2505 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1061 points
0.66% slightly better multitasking score
1054 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1027 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score
1011 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1594 points
40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1135 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

838 points
139% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
350 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
24% slightly higher clock speed
2.9 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
2 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

833rd of 1,089
847th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium G Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Pentium G4520 vs Athlon II X4 635 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium G4520 is faster than the Athlon II X4 635. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 635 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X4 635 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium G4520 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium G4520. Our comparison shows that the Pentium G4520 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X4 635. In terms of cache, the Athlon II X4 635 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Pentium G4520

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 G4520 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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