AMD A12-9720P vs Intel Core i7-860

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

1632 points

32% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2365 points

2607 points

10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

930 points

1342 points

44% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

891 points

1289 points

44% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.71 points

30.74 points

95% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1084 points

1475 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

485 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

441 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1190 points

1475 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

529 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

451 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

95 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

891st of 1,089

783rd of 1,089

Family

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

A12-9720P vs Core i7-860 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-860 is faster than the A12-9720P. Despite this, the A12-9720P has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-860 has more threads. A A12-9720P CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-860 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.