AMD A12-9720P vs Intel Core i7-870

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

1923 points

55% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2365 points

3090 points

30% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

930 points

1576 points

69% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

891 points

1513 points

69% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.71 points

37.74 points

140% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1084 points

1563 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

485 points

Identical

485 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1190 points

1550 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

529 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

475 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

732nd 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 i7-870 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-870 is faster than the A12-9720P. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A12-9720P in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-870 has more threads. A A12-9720P CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-870 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.