AMD A12-9720P vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400

Compare AMD 4 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 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

0.57% slightly better overall score

1227 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2365 points

3% slightly better gaming score

2282 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

930 points

933 points

0.32% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

891 points

895 points

0.45% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.71 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

14.84 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1084 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

970 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

485 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

344 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1190 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

935 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

529 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

337 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

95 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

891st of 1,089

894th of 1,089

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 August

A12-9720P vs Core 2 Quad Q9400 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the A12-9720P beats the Core 2 Quad Q9400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core 2 Quad Q9400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. A A12-9720P CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Quad Q9400 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the A12-9720P has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.