AMD A12-9720P vs AMD FX-4300

Compare AMD 4 core CPU vs AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 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

1352 points

9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2365 points

2531 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

930 points

1026 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

891 points

986 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.71 points

17.26 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1084 points

0.74% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1076 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

485 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

434 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1190 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1111 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

529 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

453 points

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

533% significantly lower TDP

95 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

891st of 1,089

855th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

A12-9720P vs FX-4300 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-4300 is faster than the A12-9720P. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A12-9720P in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the A12-9720P has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the FX-4300 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. A A12-9720P CPU outputs less heat than a FX-4300 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.