Intel Pentium Gold G5500 vs AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945

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Intel Pentium Gold G5500 CPU1 vs CPU2 AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945
Intel Pentium Gold G5500 AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945

CPU comparison

Intel Pentium Gold G5500 or AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945 - 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 Intel Pentium Gold G5500 has 2 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.80 GHz. Up to 64 GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The Intel Pentium Gold G5500 was released in Q2/2018.

The AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945 has 12 cores with 24 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 5.40 GHz. The CPU supports up to 128 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945 was released in Q2/2023.
Intel Pentium (150) Family AMD Ryzen 9 PRO (4)
Intel Pentium G5000 (8) CPU group AMD Ryzen 7000 (14)
8 Generation 6
Coffee Lake S Architecture Raphael (Zen 4)
Desktop / Server Segment Desktop / Server
Intel Pentium G4500 Predecessor --
Intel Pentium Gold G6500 Successor AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Pentium Gold G5500 is a 2 core processor with a clock frequency of 3.80 GHz. The AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945 has 12 CPU cores with a clock frequency of 3.70 GHz (5.40 GHz).

Intel Pentium Gold G5500 Characteristic AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945
2 Cores 12
4 Threads 24
normal Core architecture normal
Yes Hyperthreading Yes
No Overclocking ? Yes
3.80 GHz Frequency 3.70 GHz
-- Turbo Frequency (1 Core) 5.40 GHz
-- Turbo Frequency (All Cores) 4.70 GHz

NPU AI performance

The performance values of the processor's AI unit. The isolated NPU performance is specified here, the total AI performance (NPU+CPU+iGPU) can be higher. Processors with support for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors.

Intel Pentium Gold G5500 Characteristic AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945
-- AI hardware --
-- AI specifications --
-- NPU + CPU + iGPU --

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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.

Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU AMD Radeon Graphics (Raphael)
0.35 GHz GPU frequency 0.40 GHz
1.10 GHz GPU (Turbo) 2.20 GHz
9.5 GPU Generation 9
14 nm Technology 5 nm
3 Max. displays 3
24 Compute units 2
192 Shader 128
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
64 GB Max. GPU Memory 8 GB
12 DirectX Version 12

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.

Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU AMD Radeon Graphics (Raphael)
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec VP9 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec VP8 Decode / Encode
No Codec AV1 Decode
Decode / Encode Codec AVC Decode / Encode
Decode Codec VC-1 Decode
Decode / Encode Codec JPEG Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The Intel Pentium Gold G5500 supports a maximum of 64 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945 can connect up to 128 GB of memory in 2 memory channels.

Intel Pentium Gold G5500 Characteristic AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945
DDR4-2400 Memory DDR5-5200
64 GB Max. Memory 128 GB
2 (Dual Channel) Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
38.4 GB/s Max. Bandwidth 83.2 GB/s
Yes ECC Yes
-- L2 Cache 12.00 MB
4.00 MB L3 Cache 64.00 MB
3.0 PCIe version 5.0
16 PCIe lanes 24
15.8 GB/s PCIe Bandwidth 94.5 GB/s

Thermal Management

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of a processor specifies the required cooling solution. The Intel Pentium Gold G5500 has a TDP of 54 W, that of the AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945 is 65 W.

Intel Pentium Gold G5500 Characteristic AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945
54 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) 65 W
-- TDP (PL2) 88 W
-- TDP up 170 W
-- TDP down --
100 °C Tjunction max. 95 °C

Technical details

The Intel Pentium Gold G5500 has a 4.00 MB cache, while the AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945 cache has a total of 76.00 MB.

Intel Pentium Gold G5500 Characteristic AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945
14 nm Technology 5 nm
Monolithic Chip design Chiplet
x86-64 (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
SSE4.1, SSE4.2 ISA extensions SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512
LGA 1151 Socket AM5 (LGA 1718)
VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d Virtualization AMD-V, SVM
Yes AES-NI Yes
Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux Operating systems Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Q2/2018 Release date Q2/2023
-- Release price --
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 4 CPU benchmarks
Intel Pentium Gold G5500 (43%)
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945 (100%)
⌀ Multi core performance in 5 CPU benchmarks
Intel Pentium Gold G5500 (9%)
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945 (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.
Intel Pentium Gold G5500 Intel Pentium Gold G5500
2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
956 (43%)
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945 AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945
12C 24T @ 5.40 GHz
2206 (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.
Intel Pentium Gold G5500 Intel Pentium Gold G5500
2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
2144 (10%)
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945 AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945
12C 24T @ 4.70 GHz
21140 (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.
Intel Pentium Gold G5500 Intel Pentium Gold G5500
2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
809 (29%)
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945 AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945
12C 24T @ 5.40 GHz
2798 (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.
Intel Pentium Gold G5500 Intel Pentium Gold G5500
2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
1811 (11%)
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945 AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945
12C 24T @ 4.70 GHz
16832 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 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.
Intel Pentium Gold G5500 Intel Pentium Gold G5500
2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
353 (46%)
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945 AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945
12C 24T @ 5.40 GHz
764 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 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.
Intel Pentium Gold G5500 Intel Pentium Gold G5500
2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
916 (8%)
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945 AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945
12C 24T @ 4.70 GHz
11088 (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.
Intel Pentium Gold G5500 Intel Pentium Gold G5500
Intel UHD Graphics 630 @ 1.10 GHz
422 (75%)
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945 AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945
AMD Radeon Graphics (Raphael) @ 2.20 GHz
563 (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.
Intel Pentium Gold G5500 Intel Pentium Gold G5500
2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
3825 (8%)
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945 AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945
12C 24T @ 4.70 GHz
49250 (100%)

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.
Intel Pentium Gold G5500 Intel Pentium Gold G5500
2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
163 (52%)
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945 AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945
12C 24T @ 5.40 GHz
314 (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.
Intel Pentium Gold G5500 Intel Pentium Gold G5500
2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
414 (9%)
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945 AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945
12C 24T @ 4.70 GHz
4796 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 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.
Intel Pentium Gold G5500 Intel Pentium Gold G5500
2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945 AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945
12C 24T @ 5.40 GHz
1964 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 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.
Intel Pentium Gold G5500 Intel Pentium Gold G5500
2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945 AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7945
12C 24T @ 4.70 GHz
28905 (100%)

Devices using this processor

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