AMD A8-6500 vs Intel Celeron N4020. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile
• Family
  AMD A Intel Celeron
• Generation
  3 9
• CPU group
  AMD A8-6000 Intel Celeron J4000/N4000/N5000

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
  3.50 GHz 1.10 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  4.10 GHz 2.80 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 2
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• 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
  AMD Radeon HD 8570D Intel UHD Graphics 600
• GPU frequency
  0.84 GHz 0.20 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 0.65 GHz
• Execution units
  4 12
• Shader
  256 96
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 8 GB
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Generation
  5 9.5
• DirectX Version
  11.2 12
• Technology
  32 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2013 Q4/2017

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Celeron N4020 and AMD A8-6500. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1866 DDR4-2400
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  2.0
• PCIe lanes
  6

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD A8-6500 and Intel Celeron N4020 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  65 W 6 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD A8-6500 and AMD A8-6500, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4 SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Richland (Piledriver) Gemini Lake
• Technology
  32 nm 10 nm
• Socket
  FM2 BGA 1090
• Release date
  Q2/2013 Q4/2019