AMD A12-9720P vs AMD Athlon II X3 450

A12-9720P vs Athlon II X3 450 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the A12-9720P beats the Athlon II X3 450 in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon II X3 450 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the A12-9720P has slightly more cores than the Athlon II X3 450. Indeed, the A12-9720P has 4 cores compared to 3 cores found in the Athlon II X3 450. It also has more threads than the Athlon II X3 450.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the A12-9720P has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.