Intel Pentium Gold 8505 vs AMD Ryzen 5 1600 AF. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Pentium Gold 8000 AMD Ryzen 2000
• Family
  Intel Pentium AMD Ryzen
• Generation
  12 2
• Predecessor
  Intel Pentium Gold 7505 -
• Segment
  Mobile Desktop / Server

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• A-Core
  1x Golden Cove -
• A-Core Frequency
  1.20 GHz (4.40 GHz) -
• B-Core
  4x Gracemont -
• B-Core Frequency
  0.90 GHz (3.30 GHz) -
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) normal
• CPU Cores
  5 6
• CPU Threads
  6 12
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Base Frequency
  - 3.2 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  - 3.6 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (6 Cores)
  - 3.4 GHz

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

• DirectX Version
  12 -
• Execution units
  48 -
• Generation
  12 -
• GPU Frequency
  200 MHz -
• GPU name
  Intel UHD Graphics 11th Gen (48 EU) no iGPU
• GPU Turbo
  1100 MHz No turbo
• Max. displays
  3 -
• Max. GPU Memory
  64 GB -
• Release date
  Q2/2020 -
• Shader
  384 -
• Technology
  10 nm -

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

• AV1
  Decode No
• H.264 / AVC
  Decode / Encode No
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode No
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• VP8
  Decode No
• VP9
  Decode / Encode No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 5 1600 AF and Intel Pentium Gold 8505. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No Yes
• Max. Memory
  64 GB -
• Memory Bandwidth
  76.8 GB/s -
• Memory channels
  2 (Dual Channel) 2
• Memory type
  DDR4-3200DDR5-4800LPDDR4X-4266LPDDR5-5200 DDR4-2666
• PCIe
  4.0 x 20 -
• PCIe lanes
  - 20
• PCIe version
  - 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium Gold 8505 and AMD Ryzen 5 1600 AF Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  100 °C 95 °C
• TDP (PL1 / PBP, legacy combined label)
  15 W -
• TDP (PL2)
  55 W -
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  - 65 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium Gold 8505 and AMD Ryzen 5 1600 AF, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Alder Lake U Pinnacle Ridge (Zen+)
• Chip design
  Monolithic -
• Documents
  Technical data sheet -
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  3.25 MB -
• L3-Cache
  8 MB 16 MB
• Release date
  Q1/2022 Q4/2019
• Release price
  193 $ -
• Socket
  BGA 1744 AM4
• Technology
  10 nm 12 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V, SVM