AMD A9-9420 vs AMD Athlon Silver 3050e

Compare AMD A9-Series APU for Laptops 2 core CPU vs AMD Athlon Mobile 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
0.73% slightly better overall score
687 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1528 points
3% slightly better gaming score
1472 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

492 points
499 points
1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

472 points
480 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
114% significantly higher clock speed
1.40 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
28% slightly higher turbo speed
2.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
6 W
150% significantly lower TDP

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
1,035th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A9-Series APU for Laptops
Athlon Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2020 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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A9-9420 vs Athlon Silver 3050e specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the A9-9420 beats the Athlon Silver 3050e in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon Silver 3050e in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Athlon Silver 3050e has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A9-9420 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon Silver 3050e. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache

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

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