AMD A12-9720P vs Intel Core i5-4310M

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

1246 points

0.97% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2365 points

2481 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

930 points

0.43% slightly better multitasking score

926 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

891 points

0.22% slightly better heavy workload score

889 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.71 points

19.06 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1084 points

1697 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

485 points

859 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1190 points

1883 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

529 points

1000 points

89% 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

886th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 February

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 i5-4310M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A12-9720P is faster than the Core i5-4310M. Despite this, the Core i5-4310M 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 i5-4310M has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. A A12-9720P CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-4310M 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.