AMD A9-9420 vs Intel Celeron G550

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

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Intel Celeron G550

Price

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$ 195.00

$ 17.00 slightly less expensive

$ 212.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

692 points

801 points

15% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1528 points

1755 points

14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

492 points

570 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

472 points

548 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

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Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

500 points

830 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

325 points

444 points

36% 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

15% slightly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

65 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

0.5 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,031st of 1,089

1,004th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A9-Series APU for Laptops

Celeron

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

A9-9420 vs Celeron G550 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Celeron G550 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 and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the A9-9420 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Celeron G550. In terms of cache, the A9-9420 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Celeron G550

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.