AMD A8-9600 vs Intel Pentium G3250T

AMD A8-9600
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3100 MHz / Cores: 4 / Sep 2016
AMD A8-9600
Intel Pentium G3250T
Intel Socket 1150DESKTOP
2800 MHz / Cores: 2 / Jul 2014
Intel Pentium G3250T

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD A8-9600
    100%
  • Intel Pentium G3250T
    118%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD A8-9600
    100%
  • Intel Pentium G3250T
    157%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD A8-9600
    125%
  • Intel Pentium G3250T
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD A8-9600

Much higher multi threaded performance (around 25% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).

Reasons to consider Intel Pentium G3250T

Much higher single threaded performance (around 57% higher), makes a noticeable performance difference in gaming and the majority of applications.

No winner

Gaming

No clear winner declared


AMD A8-9600

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD A8-9600

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

AMD A8-9600Intel Pentium G3250T
MMX
3DNow!
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSE4A
AMD64
CnQ
NX bit
AMD-V
SSSE3
SSE4.2
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
VT-x
CLMUL
FMA3

Architecture

AMD A8-9600Intel Pentium G3250T
ArchitectureAMD ExcavatorvsIntel_Haswell
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR3
CodenameBristol RidgevsHaswell
Release DateSep 2016vsJul 2014

Cores

AMD A8-9600Intel Pentium G3250T
Cores4vs2
Threads4vs2
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsRadeon R7vsIntel HD (Haswell)

Cache

AMD A8-9600Intel Pentium G3250T
L1 Cache128 KB (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512 KB (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache0 KBvs3072 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD A8-9600Intel Pentium G3250T
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsIntel Socket 1150
Max Case Tempunknownvs72°C
PackageuPGAvsFC-LGA12C
Die Sizeunknownvs177mm²
Process14 nmvs22 nm

Performance

AMD A8-9600Intel Pentium G3250T
Cpu Frequency3100 MHzvs2800 MHz
Turbo Clock3400 MHzvsnone
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltageunknownvsunknown
TDP65 Wvs35 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD A8-9600
    2346 points
  • Intel Pentium G3250T
    3136 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD A8-9600
    7443 points
  • Intel Pentium G3250T
    6272 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD A8-9600 (simulated)
    72.05
  • Intel Pentium G3250T (simulated)
    113.56

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD A8-9600 (simulated)
    260.24
  • Intel Pentium G3250T (simulated)
    207

points - higher is better