Intel Pentium Gold G6600 vs AMD A10-6800K. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Pentium AMD A
• Generation
  10 3
• CPU group
  Intel Pentium G6000 AMD A10-6000

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  4.20 GHz 4.10 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo 4.40 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Hyperthreading
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Core architecture
  normal normal

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  Intel HD Graphics 630 AMD Radeon HD 8670D
• GPU frequency
  0.35 GHz 0.84 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  1.10 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  24 6
• Shader
  192 384
• Max. GPU Memory
  64 GB 2 GB
• Max. displays
  3 2
• Generation
  9.5 5
• DirectX Version
  12 11.2
• Technology
  14 nm 32 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2016 Q2/2013

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD A10-6800K and Intel Pentium Gold G6600. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2666 DDR3-2133
• Max. Memory
  128 GB
• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0
• PCIe lanes
  16

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium Gold G6600 and AMD A10-6800K to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  58 W 100 W
• Tjunction max.
  100 °C --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium Gold G6600 and Intel Pentium Gold G6600, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Comet Lake S Richland (Piledriver)
• Technology
  14 nm 32 nm
• Socket
  LGA 1200 FM2
• Release date
  Q2/2020 Q2/2013