AMD Athlon X4 970 vs Intel Pentium G4520

AMD Athlon X4 970
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3800 MHz / Cores: 4 / Jul 2017
AMD Athlon X4 970
Intel Pentium G4520
Intel Socket 1151DESKTOP
3600 MHz / Cores: 2 / Sep 2015
Intel Pentium G4520

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Athlon X4 970
    100%
  • Intel Pentium G4520
    136%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Athlon X4 970
    100%
  • Intel Pentium G4520
    180%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Athlon X4 970
    107%
  • Intel Pentium G4520
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Athlon X4 970

7% higher multi threaded performance.
This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).

Reasons to consider Intel Pentium G4520

Much higher single threaded performance (around 80% higher), makes a noticeable performance difference in gaming and the majority of applications.
Has an integrated GPU, which allows to run the system without a dedicated graphics card, unlike the AMD Athlon X4 970.

No winner

Gaming

No clear winner declared


No winner

Productivity

No clear winner declared



Specifications

Features

AMD Athlon X4 970Intel Pentium G4520
MMX
3DNow!
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSE4
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
SSE4A
AMD64
AES
AVX
AVX2
BMI1
BMI2
FMA3
FMA4
F16C
TBM
XOP
AMD-V
EVP
Turbo Core
SSSE3
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
VT-x
AES-NI
TSX
CLMUL

Architecture

AMD Athlon X4 970Intel Pentium G4520
ArchitectureAMD ExcavatorvsIntel_Skylake
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR3, DDR4
CodenameBristol RidgevsSkylake
Release DateJul 2017vsSep 2015

Cores

AMD Athlon X4 970Intel Pentium G4520
Cores4vs2
Threads4vs2
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsNovsIntel HD 530

Cache

AMD Athlon X4 970Intel Pentium G4520
L1 Cache128 KB (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512 KB (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache0 KBvs4096 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Athlon X4 970Intel Pentium G4520
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsIntel Socket 1151
Max Case Temp74°Cvs65°C
PackageuPGAvs
Die Size246mm²vs150mm²
Process28 nmvs14 nm

Performance

AMD Athlon X4 970Intel Pentium G4520
Cpu Frequency3800 MHzvs3600 MHz
Turbo Clock4000 MHzvsnone
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltage1.475 Vvsunknown
TDP65 Wvs51 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon X4 970
    2760 points
  • Intel Pentium G4520
    4140 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon X4 970
    9124 points
  • Intel Pentium G4520
    8280 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Athlon X4 970 (simulated)
    84.76
  • Intel Pentium G4520 (simulated)
    153

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD Athlon X4 970 (simulated)
    319
  • Intel Pentium G4520 (simulated)
    297.82

points - higher is better