Intel Pentium Silver J5005 vs AMD A8-5500

Intel Pentium Silver J5005
Intel BGA1090DESKTOP
1500 MHz / Cores: 4 / Dec 2017
Intel Pentium Silver J5005
AMD A8-5500
AMD Socket FM2DESKTOP
3200 MHz / Cores: 4 / Oct 2012
AMD A8-5500

Summary

Reasons to consider Intel Pentium Silver J5005

55 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 A8-5500

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

Intel Pentium Silver J5005

Gaming

HWBench recommends Intel Pentium Silver J5005

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

No winner

Productivity

No clear winner declared



Specifications

Features

Intel Pentium Silver J5005AMD A8-5500
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 Silver J5005AMD A8-5500
ArchitectureIntel Gemini LakevsAMD Piledriver
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR3
CodenameCoffee LakevsTrinity
Release DateDec 2017vsOct 2012

Cores

Intel Pentium Silver J5005AMD A8-5500
Cores4vs4
Threads4vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsUHD Graphics 605vsRadeon HD 7560D

Cache

Intel Pentium Silver J5005AMD A8-5500
L1 Cache64 KB (per core)vs128 KB (per core)
L2 Cache256 KB (per core)vs1024 KB (per core)
L3 Cache4096 KB (shared)vs0 KB

Physical

Intel Pentium Silver J5005AMD A8-5500
SocketIntel BGA1090vsAMD Socket FM2
Max Case Temp72°Cvs71°C
PackageFC-BGA1090vsuPGA
Die Sizeunknownvs246mm²
Process14 nmvs32 nm

Performance

Intel Pentium Silver J5005AMD A8-5500
Cpu Frequency1500 MHzvs3200 MHz
Turbo Clock2800 MHzvs3700 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltageunknownvs1.475 V
TDP10 Wvs65 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • Intel Pentium Silver J5005
    2800 points
  • AMD A8-5500
    2257 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • Intel Pentium Silver J5005
    6000 points
  • AMD A8-5500
    6402 points

Points - higher is better