Intel Pentium Silver N5000 vs AMD PRO A8-8600B

Compare Intel Pentium Silver Series 4 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

905 points

8% slightly better overall score

834 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1718 points

4% slightly better gaming score

1650 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

682 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

617 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

652 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

589 points

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Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

860 points

982 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

345 points

411 points

19% 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

1.6 GHz

45% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

6 W

150% significantly lower TDP

15 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,008th of 1,118

1,019th of 1,118

Family

The product line

Pentium Silver Series

PRO A-Series A8 APU for Laptops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Pentium Silver N5000 vs PRO A8-8600B comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium Silver N5000 is faster than the PRO A8-8600B. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the PRO A8-8600B 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 PRO A8-8600B that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the PRO A8-8600B has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N5000. A Pentium Silver N5000 CPU outputs less heat than a PRO A8-8600B CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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