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AMD A8-6500 vs Intel Pentium G3240

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 2 - 71 %
AMD A8-6500
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Pentium G3240
Multi-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
AMD A8-6500
Rank 2 - 84 %
Intel Pentium G3240
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

AMD A8-6500
4C / 4T · 4.10 GHz
489
Intel Pentium G3240
2C / 2T · 3.10 GHz
694
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

AMD A8-6500
AMD A8-6500 100 %
4C / 4T · 4.10 GHz
1,299
Intel Pentium G3240
2C / 2T · 3.10 GHz
1,302
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

AMD A8-6500
AMD A8-6500 100 %
AMD Radeon HD 8570D
432
Intel Pentium G3240
Intel HD Graphics (Haswell GT1)
176
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Single-core performance

AMD A8-6500
4C / 4T · 4.10 GHz
90 cb
Intel Pentium G3240
2C / 2T · 3.10 GHz
123 cb
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Multi-core performance

AMD A8-6500
AMD A8-6500 100 %
4C / 4T · 4.10 GHz
293 cb
Intel Pentium G3240
2C / 2T · 3.10 GHz
236 cb

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At a glance

Wischen
AMD A8-6500Intel Pentium G3240
FamilyAMD A (112)Intel Pentium (150)
CPU groupAMD A8-6000 (4)Intel Pentium G3000 (14)
ArchitectureRichland (Piledriver)Haswell S
Technology32 nm14 nm
SegmentDesktopDesktop
SocketFM2LGA 1150
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

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AMD A8-6500Intel Pentium G3240
CPU Cores / Threads4 / 42 / 2
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturenormalnormal
Cores: 4x 2x
Frequency: 3.50 GHz 3.10 GHz
Turbo (1 Core): 4.10 GHz
Turbo (All Cores): 4.10 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache4.00 MB3.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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AMD A8-6500Intel Pentium G3240
GPU nameAMD Radeon HD 8570DIntel HD Graphics (Haswell GT1)
GPU frequency0.84 GHz0.35 - 1.10 GHz
CUs / Shader4 / 25610 / 80
Raytracing
Max. displays23
Max. GPU Memory2 GB2 GB
Technology32 nm22 nm
Release dateQ2/2013Q4/2012

NPU AI performance

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AMD A8-6500Intel Pentium G3240
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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AMD A8-6500Intel Pentium G3240
MemoryDDR3-1866 (29.9 GB/s)
DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s)
Max. Memory32 GB
Memory channels22
ECCNoYes
PCIe3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

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AMD A8-6500Intel Pentium G3240
TDP65 W54 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

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AMD A8-6500Intel Pentium G3240
Chip designUnknownMonolithic
AES-NI
Operating systemsWindows 10, LinuxWindows 10, Linux
Instruction setx86-64 (64 bit)x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensionsSSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4SSE4.1, SSE4.2
Release dateQ2/2013Q2/2014
Release price85 $54 $
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

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AMD A8-6500
AMD A8-6500
4C / 4T · 3.50 - 4.10 GHz
Intel Pentium G3240
Intel Pentium G3240
2C / 2T · 3.10 GHz

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