AMD A12-9720P vs AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

Compare AMD 4 core CPU vs AMD Athlon Mobile 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1234 points

2% slightly better overall score

1200 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2365 points

2572 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

930 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

864 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

891 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

831 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.71 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

15.05 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1190 points

1350 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

529 points

778 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

Identical

15 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

891st of 1,089

902nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Athlon Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

A12-9720P vs Athlon Silver 3050U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the A12-9720P beats the Athlon Silver 3050U in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon Silver 3050U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the A12-9720P has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Athlon Silver 3050U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon Silver 3050U.

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.