AMD A12-9720P vs Intel Core i7-950

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

1367 points

10% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2365 points

10% slightly better gaming score

2145 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

930 points

1130 points

21% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

891 points

1084 points

21% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.71 points

30.71 points

95% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1084 points

1595 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

485 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

460 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1190 points

1494 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

529 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

457 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

766% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

920th of 1,127

874th of 1,127

Family

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 May

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 i7-950 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-950 performs better than the A12-9720P. Despite this, the A12-9720P has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-950 has more threads. A A12-9720P CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-950 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.