AMD A8-4500M vs AMD A9-9420

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs AMD A9-Series APU for Laptops 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD A9-9420

Price

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$ 30.34

$ 164.66 significantly less expensive

$ 195.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

804 points

16% slightly better overall score

692 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1553 points

1% slightly better gaming score

1528 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

601 points

22% slightly better multitasking score

492 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

576 points

22% slightly better heavy workload score

472 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

10.48 points

42% slightly higher Blender score

7.36 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

599 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

500 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

281 points

325 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

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

35 W

15 W

133% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,029th of 1,118

1,061st of 1,118

Family

The product line

A9-Series APU for Laptops

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

A8-4500M vs A9-9420 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A8-4500M performs better than the A9-9420. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A9-9420 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the A8-4500M has more threads. The A9-9420 outputs less heat than A8-4500M 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. Indeed, the A8-4500M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.