AMD A12-9720P vs Intel Core i5-3550S

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

1279 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2365 points

0.51% slightly better gaming score

2353 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

930 points

976 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

891 points

937 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1084 points

2383 points

119% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

485 points

708 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1190 points

1747 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

529 points

619 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

333% significantly lower TDP

65 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

891st of 1,089

876th of 1,089

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

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 i5-3550S comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3550S beats the A12-9720P in overall performance. Despite this, the A12-9720P 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 i5-3550S 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.