Intel Pentium Gold G5600 vs AMD Athlon 5350

Last updated: 2023-04-27

CPU comparison with benchmarks


Intel Pentium Gold G5600		AMD Athlon 5350
CPU comparison Intel Pentium Gold G5600 or AMD Athlon 5350 - 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 G5600 has 2 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.90 GHz. Up to 64 GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The Intel Pentium Gold G5600 was released in Q2/2018. The AMD Athlon 5350 has 4 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 2.05 GHz. The CPU supports up to GB of memory in 1 memory channels. The AMD Athlon 5350 was released in Q2/2014.

Intel Pentium (150)	Family	AMD Athlon (29)
Intel Pentium G5000 (8)	CPU group	AMD Athlon 5000 (2)
8	Generation	3
Coffee Lake S	Architecture	Kabini (Jaguar)
Desktop / Server	Segment	Desktop / Server
Intel Pentium G4600	Predecessor	--
Intel Pentium Gold G6600	Successor	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency The Intel Pentium Gold G5600 has 2 CPU cores and can calculate 4 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Pentium Gold G5600 is 3.90 GHz while the AMD Athlon 5350 has 4 CPU cores and 4 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the AMD Athlon 5350 is at 2.05 GHz.
Intel Pentium Gold G5600	Characteristic	AMD Athlon 5350
2	Cores	4
4	Threads	4
normal	Core architecture	normal
Yes	Hyperthreading	No
No	Overclocking ?	Yes
3.90 GHz	Frequency	2.05 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.
Intel Pentium Gold G5600	Characteristic	AMD Athlon 5350
--	AI hardware	--
--	AI specifications	--

Internal Graphics The Intel Pentium Gold G5600 or AMD Athlon 5350 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.
Intel UHD Graphics 630	GPU	AMD Radeon HD 8400
0.35 GHz	GPU frequency	0.60 GHz
1.10 GHz	GPU (Turbo)	--
9.5	GPU Generation	5
14 nm	Technology	28 nm
3	Max. displays	2
24	Compute units	2
192	Shader	128
No	Hardware Raytracing	No
No	Frame Generation	No
64 GB	Max. GPU Memory	2 GB
12	DirectX Version	11.1

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 HD 8400
Decode / Encode	Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No
Decode / Encode	Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No
Decode / Encode	Codec h264	Decode
Decode / Encode	Codec VP9	No
Decode / Encode	Codec VP8	No
No	Codec AV1	No
Decode / Encode	Codec AVC	Decode
Decode	Codec VC-1	Decode
Decode / Encode	Codec JPEG	Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe The Intel Pentium Gold G5600 can use up to 64 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 38.4 GB/s. The AMD Athlon 5350 supports up to GB of memory in 1 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 12.8 GB/s.
Intel Pentium Gold G5600	Characteristic	AMD Athlon 5350
DDR4-2400	Memory	DDR3L-1600
64 GB	Max. Memory
2 (Dual Channel)	Memory channels	1 (Single Channel)
38.4 GB/s	Max. Bandwidth	12.8 GB/s
Yes	ECC	No
--	L2 Cache	--
4.00 MB	L3 Cache	2.00 MB
3.0	PCIe version	--
16	PCIe lanes	--
15.8 GB/s	PCIe Bandwidth	--
Thermal Management The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the Intel Pentium Gold G5600 is 54 W, while the AMD Athlon 5350 has a TDP of 25 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.
Intel Pentium Gold G5600	Characteristic	AMD Athlon 5350
54 W	TDP (PL1 / PBP)	25 W
--	TDP (PL2)	--
--	TDP up	--
--	TDP down	--
--	Tjunction max.	--
Technical details The Intel Pentium Gold G5600 is manufactured in 14 nm and has 4.00 MB cache. The AMD Athlon 5350 is manufactured in 28 nm and has a 2.00 MB cache.
Intel Pentium Gold G5600	Characteristic	AMD Athlon 5350
14 nm	Technology	28 nm
Monolithic	Chip design	Unknown
x86-64 (64 bit)	Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)
SSE4.1, SSE4.2	ISA extensions	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
LGA 1151	Socket	AM1
VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d	Virtualization	AMD-V
Yes	AES-NI	Yes
Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux
Q2/2018	Release date	Q2/2014
--	Release price	47 $

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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 3 CPU benchmarks

Intel Pentium Gold G5600 (100%)

AMD Athlon 5350 (27%)

⌀ Multi core performance in 4 CPU benchmarks

Intel Pentium Gold G5600 (100%)

AMD Athlon 5350 (40%)

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 G5600 2C 4T @ 3.90 GHz	983 (100%)
	AMD Athlon 5350 4C 4T @ 2.05 GHz	269 (27%)

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 G5600 2C 4T @ 3.90 GHz	2190 (100%)
	AMD Athlon 5350 4C 4T @ 2.05 GHz	865 (39%)

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 G5600 2C 4T @ 3.90 GHz	837 (100%)
	AMD Athlon 5350 4C 4T @ 2.05 GHz	236 (28%)

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 G5600 2C 4T @ 3.90 GHz	1860 (100%)
	AMD Athlon 5350 4C 4T @ 2.05 GHz	708 (38%)

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 G5600 Intel UHD Graphics 630 @ 1.10 GHz	422 (100%)
	AMD Athlon 5350 AMD Radeon HD 8400 @ 0.60 GHz	154 (36%)

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 G5600 2C 4T @ 3.90 GHz	3885 (100%)
	AMD Athlon 5350 4C 4T @ 2.05 GHz	1755 (45%)

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 G5600 2C 4T @ 3.90 GHz	168 (100%)
	AMD Athlon 5350 4C 4T @ 2.05 GHz	44 (26%)

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 G5600 2C 4T @ 3.90 GHz	425 (100%)
	AMD Athlon 5350 4C 4T @ 2.05 GHz	162 (38%)

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 G5600 2C 4T @ 3.90 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Athlon 5350 4C 4T @ 2.05 GHz	95 (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 G5600 2C 4T @ 3.90 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Athlon 5350 4C 4T @ 2.05 GHz	336 (100%)

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