Intel Pentium Gold G5420 vs AMD A4-1200. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Pentium G5000 AMD A4-1000
• Family
  Intel Pentium AMD A
• Generation
  8 7
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile

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

• Base Frequency
  3.8 GHz 1 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  2 2
• CPU Threads
  4 2
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  No turbo No turbo
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  No turbo No turbo

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 11.1
• Execution units
  12 2
• Generation
  9.5 5
• GPU Frequency
  350 MHz 230 MHz
• GPU name
  Intel HD Graphics 610 AMD Radeon HD 8180
• GPU Turbo
  1050 MHz No turbo
• Max. displays
  3 2
• Max. GPU Memory
  32 GB 2 GB
• Release date
  Q3/2016 Q2/2013
• Shader
  96 128
• Technology
  14 nm 28 nm

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD A4-1200 and Intel Pentium Gold G5420. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Max. Memory
  64 GB -
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR4-2400 DDR3L-1066 SO-DIMM
• PCIe lanes
  16 -
• PCIe version
  3.0 -

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium Gold G5420 and AMD A4-1200 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  54 W 3.9 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium Gold G5420 and AMD A4-1200, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Coffee Lake S Temash (Jaguar)
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4
• L3-Cache
  4 MB 1 MB
• Release date
  Q2/2019 Q2/2013
• Socket
  LGA 1151 FT3
• Technology
  14 nm 28 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V