AMD A8-5545M vs AMD A9-9420

Compare AMD 4 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

814 points

17% slightly better overall score

692 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1574 points

3% slightly better gaming score

1528 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

610 points

23% slightly better multitasking score

492 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

586 points

24% slightly better heavy workload score

472 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

8.08 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

7.36 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

745 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

500 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

275 points

325 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.7 GHz

3.6 GHz

33% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

19 W

15 W

26% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,000th of 1,089

1,031st of 1,089

Family

The product line

A9-Series APU for Laptops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

A8-5545M vs A9-9420 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the A8-5545M beats the A9-9420 in overall performance. Despite this, the A9-9420 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the A8-5545M has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the A9-9420 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the A9-9420.

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 A8-5545M has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.