AMD A6-9500 vs Intel Core i3-3120M

A6-9500 vs Core i3-3120M comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-3120M beats the A6-9500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A6-9500 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i3-3120M has more threads. Our comparison shows that the A6-9500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-3120M. The Core i3-3120M outputs less heat than A6-9500 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the A6-9500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.