AMD A4-3420 vs Intel Pentium Gold G5600F

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AMD A4-3420 CPU1 vs CPU2 Intel Pentium Gold G5600F
AMD A4-3420 Intel Pentium Gold G5600F

CPU comparison

AMD A4-3420 or Intel Pentium Gold G5600F - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results.

The AMD A4-3420 has 2 cores with 2 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 2.80 GHz. Up to GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The AMD A4-3420 was released in Q4/2011.

The Intel Pentium Gold G5600F has 2 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.90 GHz. The CPU supports up to 64 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The Intel Pentium Gold G5600F was released in Q2/2018.
AMD A (112) Family Intel Pentium (150)
AMD A4-3000 (3) CPU group Intel Pentium G5000 (8)
1 Generation 8
Llano (K10) Architecture Coffee Lake S
Desktop / Server Segment Desktop / Server
-- Predecessor --
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The AMD A4-3420 is a 2 core processor with a clock frequency of 2.80 GHz. The Intel Pentium Gold G5600F has 2 CPU cores with a clock frequency of 3.90 GHz.

AMD A4-3420 Characteristic Intel Pentium Gold G5600F
2 Cores 2
2 Threads 4
normal Core architecture normal
No Hyperthreading Yes
Yes Overclocking ? No
2.80 GHz Frequency 3.90 GHz
-- Turbo Frequency (1 Core) --
-- Turbo Frequency (All Cores) --

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

AMD A4-3420 Characteristic Intel Pentium Gold G5600F
-- AI hardware --
-- AI specifications --

Internal Graphics

The integrated graphics unit of a processor is not only responsible for the pure image output on the system, but can also significantly increase the efficiency of the system with the support of modern video codecs.

AMD Radeon HD 6410D GPU no iGPU
0.60 GHz GPU frequency --
-- GPU (Turbo) --
3 GPU Generation --
32 nm Technology
2 Max. displays
2 Compute units --
160 Shader --
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
1 GB Max. GPU Memory --
11 DirectX Version --

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

AMD Radeon HD 6410D GPU no iGPU
No Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) No
No Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) No
Decode Codec h264 No
No Codec VP9 No
No Codec VP8 No
No Codec AV1 No
Decode Codec AVC No
Decode Codec VC-1 No
Decode / Encode Codec JPEG No

Memory & PCIe

The AMD A4-3420 supports a maximum of GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The Intel Pentium Gold G5600F can connect up to 64 GB of memory in 2 memory channels.

AMD A4-3420 Characteristic Intel Pentium Gold G5600F
DDR3-1600 Memory DDR4-2400
Max. Memory 64 GB
2 (Dual Channel) Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
25.6 GB/s Max. Bandwidth 38.4 GB/s
No ECC Yes
-- L2 Cache --
1.00 MB L3 Cache 4.00 MB
-- PCIe version 3.0
-- PCIe lanes 16
-- PCIe Bandwidth 15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of a processor specifies the required cooling solution. The AMD A4-3420 has a TDP of 65 W, that of the Intel Pentium Gold G5600F is 54 W.

AMD A4-3420 Characteristic Intel Pentium Gold G5600F
65 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) 54 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
-- TDP down --
-- Tjunction max. 100 °C

Technical details

The AMD A4-3420 has a 1.00 MB cache, while the Intel Pentium Gold G5600F cache has a total of 4.00 MB.

AMD A4-3420 Characteristic Intel Pentium Gold G5600F
32 nm Technology 14 nm
Unknown Chip design Monolithic
x86-64 (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
SSE3, SSE4a ISA extensions SSE4.1, SSE4.2
FM1 Socket LGA 1151
AMD-V Virtualization VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
No AES-NI Yes
Windows 10, Linux Operating systems Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Q4/2011 Release date Q2/2018
-- Release price --
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks
AMD A4-3420 (35%)
Intel Pentium Gold G5600F (100%)
⌀ Multi core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks
AMD A4-3420 (37%)
Intel Pentium Gold G5600F (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
AMD A4-3420 AMD A4-3420
2C 2T @ 2.80 GHz
348 (35%)
Intel Pentium Gold G5600F Intel Pentium Gold G5600F
2C 4T @ 3.90 GHz
983 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
AMD A4-3420 AMD A4-3420
2C 2T @ 2.80 GHz
621 (28%)
Intel Pentium Gold G5600F Intel Pentium Gold G5600F
2C 4T @ 3.90 GHz
2190 (100%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
AMD A4-3420 AMD A4-3420
2C 2T @ 2.80 GHz
1768 (46%)
Intel Pentium Gold G5600F Intel Pentium Gold G5600F
2C 4T @ 3.90 GHz
3885 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
AMD A4-3420 AMD A4-3420
2C 2T @ 2.80 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Pentium Gold G5600F Intel Pentium Gold G5600F
2C 4T @ 3.90 GHz
837 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
AMD A4-3420 AMD A4-3420
2C 2T @ 2.80 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Pentium Gold G5600F Intel Pentium Gold G5600F
2C 4T @ 3.90 GHz
1860 (100%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
AMD A4-3420 AMD A4-3420
AMD Radeon HD 6410D @ 0.60 GHz
192 (100%)
Intel Pentium Gold G5600F Intel Pentium Gold G5600F
@ 0.00 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
AMD A4-3420 AMD A4-3420
2C 2T @ 2.80 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Pentium Gold G5600F Intel Pentium Gold G5600F
2C 4T @ 3.90 GHz
168 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
AMD A4-3420 AMD A4-3420
2C 2T @ 2.80 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Pentium Gold G5600F Intel Pentium Gold G5600F
2C 4T @ 3.90 GHz
425 (100%)

Devices using this processor

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