Intel Pentium Gold G5500 vs AMD A8-3850

Intel Pentium Gold G5500
Intel Socket 1151DESKTOP
3800 MHz / Cores: 2 / Apr 2018
Intel Pentium Gold G5500
AMD A8-3850
AMD Socket FM1DESKTOP
2900 MHz / Cores: 4 / Jun 2011
AMD A8-3850

Summary

Reasons to consider Intel Pentium Gold G5500

49 watts lower power draw.
This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on raw specifications plus core architecture.

Reasons to consider AMD A8-3850

Higher theoretical multi-threaded performance, based on raw specifications plus core architecture.

Intel Pentium Gold G5500

Gaming

HWBench recommends Intel Pentium Gold G5500

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

No winner

Productivity

No clear winner declared



Specifications

Features

Intel Pentium Gold G5500AMD A8-3850
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4.2
AVX
AVX2
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
VT-x
VT-d
AES-NI
TSX
TXT
CLMUL
FMA3
F16C
BMI1
BMI2
Boost 2.0
HT
3DNow!
SSE4A
AMD64
CnQ
NX bit
AMD-V

Architecture

Intel Pentium Gold G5500AMD A8-3850
ArchitectureIntel_CoffelakevsAMD LLano
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR3
CodenameCoffee LakevsLlano
Release DateApr 2018vsJun 2011

Cores

Intel Pentium Gold G5500AMD A8-3850
Cores2vs4
Threads4vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsUHD Graphics 630vsRadeon HD 6550D

Cache

Intel Pentium Gold G5500AMD A8-3850
L1 Cache64 KB (per core)vs128 KB (per core)
L2 Cache256 KB (per core)vs1024 KB (per core)
L3 Cache6144 KB (shared)vs0 KB

Physical

Intel Pentium Gold G5500AMD A8-3850
SocketIntel Socket 1151vsAMD Socket FM1
Max Case Temp72°Cvsunknown
PackageFC-LGA1151vsuPGA
Die Sizeunknownvs228mm²
Process14 nmvs32 nm

Performance

Intel Pentium Gold G5500AMD A8-3850
Cpu Frequency3800 MHzvs2900 MHz
Turbo Clocknonevsnone
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltageunknownvs1.4125 V
TDP51 Wvs100 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • Intel Pentium Gold G5500
    4560 points
  • AMD A8-3850
    2900 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • Intel Pentium Gold G5500
    10944 points
  • AMD A8-3850
    11600 points

Points - higher is better