AMD A6-9500 vs Intel Core i5-4200U

Compare AMD A6-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i5 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

790 points

903 points

14% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1734 points

1763 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

567 points

678 points

19% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

550 points

654 points

18% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

12.14 points

14.77 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

929 points

1358 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

624 points

691 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

957 points

1401 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

641 points

732 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

118% significantly higher clock speed

1.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

46% significantly higher turbo speed

2.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,006th of 1,089

984th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A6-Series APU for Desktops

4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 September

2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

A6-9500 vs Core i5-4200U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-4200U beats the A6-9500 in overall performance. Despite this, the A6-9500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i5-4200U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A6-9500 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-4200U. Also, the A6-9500 has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-4200U 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.

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 A6-9500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.