AMD A12-9720P vs Intel Core i7-3520M

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
1256 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2365 points
2477 points
4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

930 points
934 points
0.43% 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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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.71 points
19.75 points
25% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1084 points
1134 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

485 points
554 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1190 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1158 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

529 points
570 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
133% significantly lower TDP
35 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

891st of 1,089
881st of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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No

A12-9720P vs Core i7-3520M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3520M is faster than the A12-9720P. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A12-9720P in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the A12-9720P has significantly more cores than the Core i7-3520M. Indeed, the A12-9720P has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-3520M. But they both have the same number of threads. A A12-9720P CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-3520M 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.

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