AMD A12-9720P vs Intel Core i5-4200M

Compare AMD 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i5 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

10% slightly better overall score

1121 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2365 points

6% slightly better gaming score

2225 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

930 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

833 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

891 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

799 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.71 points

18.84 points

19% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1084 points

1625 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

485 points

849 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1190 points

1716 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

529 points

876 points

65% significantly 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

146% significantly lower TDP

37 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

891st of 1,089

918th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 November

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 i5-4200M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A12-9720P is faster than the Core i5-4200M. Despite this, the Core i5-4200M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the A12-9720P has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-4200M has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. A A12-9720P CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-4200M 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.