AMD A6-9500 vs Intel Pentium 2020M

Compare AMD A6-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs Intel Pentium 2000 Series 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Pentium 2020M

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 166.00 significantly less expensive

$ 216.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

790 points

3% slightly better overall score

766 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1734 points

3% slightly better gaming score

1683 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

567 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

544 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

550 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

523 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

12.14 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

10.63 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

929 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

711 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

624 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

409 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

957 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

667 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

641 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

391 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

45% significantly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

35 W

85% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,006th of 1,089

1,013th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A6-Series APU for Desktops

Pentium 2000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 September

2012 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 Pentium 2020M specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A6-9500 performs better than the Pentium 2020M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium 2020M in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the A6-9500 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium 2020M. The Pentium 2020M 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.

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