AMD A12-9720P vs Intel Core i3-3240

Compare AMD 4 core CPU vs Intel Core 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

1315 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2365 points

2538 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

930 points

986 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

891 points

946 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.71 points

19.18 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1084 points

1122 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

485 points

547 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1190 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1110 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

529 points

544 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

266% significantly lower TDP

55 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

891st of 1,089

866th of 1,089

Family

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

A12-9720P vs Core i3-3240 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-3240 is faster than the A12-9720P. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A12-9720P in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the A12-9720P has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-3240 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. A A12-9720P CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-3240 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.