Intel Pentium Gold G5620 vs AMD PRO A12-9800

Comparative analysis of Intel Pentium Gold G5620 and AMD PRO A12-9800 processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Graphics, Compatibility, Security & Reliability, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization, Graphics interfaces, Graphics API support, Peripherals. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

Intel Pentium Gold G5620

AMD PRO A12-9800

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Pentium Gold G5620

CPU is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 3 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 14 nm vs 28 nm
Around 27% lower typical power consumption: 51 Watt vs 65 Watt
Around 44% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 2424 vs 1686
Around 11% better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 4102 vs 3705

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	February 2019 vs 3 October 2016
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	51 Watt vs 65 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark	2424 vs 1686
PassMark - CPU mark	4102 vs 3705

Reasons to consider the AMD PRO A12-9800

2 more cores, run more applications at once: 4 vs 2
Around 5% higher clock speed: 4.2 GHz vs 4 GHz
4x more L2 cache, more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later

Number of cores	4 vs 2
Maximum frequency	4.2 GHz vs 4 GHz
L2 cache	2 MB vs 256K (per core)

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: Intel Pentium Gold G5620
CPU 2: AMD PRO A12-9800

PassMark - Single thread mark

CPU 1

CPU 2

2424

1686

PassMark - CPU mark

CPU 1

CPU 2

4102

3705

Name	Intel Pentium Gold G5620	AMD PRO A12-9800
PassMark - Single thread mark	2424	1686
PassMark - CPU mark	4102	3705
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		26.268
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		279.396
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.975
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		34.196
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		131.8
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1176
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		477
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1715
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1176
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		477
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1715

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Pentium Gold G5620	AMD PRO A12-9800
Essentials
Architecture codename	Coffee Lake
Launch date	February 2019	3 October 2016
Place in performance rating	965	992
Vertical segment	Desktop	Desktop
Family		AMD PRO A-Series Processors
OPN Tray		AD980BAUM44AB
OS Support		Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition, RHEL x86 64-Bit, Ubuntu x86 64-Bit
Series		AMD PRO A-Series A12 APU for Desktops
Performance
64 bit support
L1 cache	64K (per core)
L2 cache	256K (per core)	2 MB
L3 cache	4 MB (shared)
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Maximum case temperature (TCase)	72 °C
Maximum frequency	4 GHz	4.2 GHz
Number of cores	2	4
Base frequency		3.8 GHz
Maximum core temperature		90°C
Number of GPU cores		8
Unlocked
Memory
Maximum memory size	64 GB
Supported memory frequency	2400 MHz	2400 MHz
Supported memory types	DDR4
Max memory channels		2
Graphics
Execution Units	24
Processor graphics	Intel HD Graphics 630	R7
Enduro
Graphics max frequency		1108 MHz
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Codec Engine (VCE)
Compatibility
Max number of CPUs in a configuration	1
Sockets supported	1151	AM4
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	51 Watt	65 Watt
Security & Reliability
Intel® Trusted Execution technology (TXT)
Advanced Technologies
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
Intel® AES New Instructions
AMD Secure technology
Enhanced Virus Protection (EVP)
FreeSync
Fused Multiply-Add 4 (FMA4)
Out-of-band client management
PowerGating
PowerNow
PowerTune
System Image Stability
TrueAudio
Virtualization
Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x)
Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d)
AMD Virtualization (AMD-V™)
IOMMU 2.0
Graphics interfaces
DisplayPort
HDMI
Graphics API support
DirectX		12
Vulkan
Peripherals
PCI Express revision		3.0