Intel Pentium Silver N5000 vs AMD A8-5500B

Compare Intel Pentium Silver Series 4 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

905 points

1173 points

29% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1718 points

2216 points

28% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

682 points

887 points

30% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

652 points

851 points

30% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

9.48 points

11.36 points

19% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

870 points

1255 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

354 points

451 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

860 points

971 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

345 points

399 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.1 GHz

3.2 GHz

190% significantly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

982nd of 1,089

906th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Silver Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Pentium Silver N5000 vs A8-5500B comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-5500B is faster than the Pentium Silver N5000. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver N5000 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Pentium Silver N5000 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the A8-5500B that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A8-5500B has a significantly higher clock speed than the Pentium Silver N5000.

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 Silver N5000 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.