AMD A9-9420 vs AMD Athlon II X2 220

Compare AMD A9-Series APU for Laptops 2 core CPU vs AMD 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

692 points

721 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1528 points

1593 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

492 points

510 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

472 points

489 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

500 points

611 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

325 points

329 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

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 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

2.81 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

Identical

1 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,031st of 1,089

1,025th of 1,089

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

A9-9420 vs Athlon II X2 220 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon II X2 220 is faster 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 and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A9-9420 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon II X2 220. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache

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 A9-9420 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.