Intel Pentium G4520 vs AMD FX-9830P

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1414 points

3% slightly better overall score

1362 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2950 points

14% slightly better gaming score

2574 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1061 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

1031 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1027 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

990 points

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Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1594 points

1621 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

838 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

636 points

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

3.6 GHz

20% slightly higher clock speed

3 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

849th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Pentium G4520 vs FX-9830P comparison

In our benchmarks, the Pentium G4520 beats the FX-9830P in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-9830P in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the FX-9830P 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 FX-9830P. The info from our database shows that the FX-9830P has more L2 cache than 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.