AMD A9-9420 vs Intel Core 2 Duo E8400

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

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Intel Core 2 Duo E8400

Price

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$ 195.00

$ 23.03

$ 171.97 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

692 points

818 points

18% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1528 points

1767 points

15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

492 points

586 points

19% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

472 points

563 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

7.36 points

10.18 points

38% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

500 points

622 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

325 points

352 points

8% 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

Identical

3 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

6 MiB

499% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,031st of 1,089

999th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A9-Series APU for Laptops

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

A9-9420 vs Core 2 Duo E8400 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 2 Duo E8400 is faster than the A9-9420. Despite this, the A9-9420 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the A9-9420 and Core 2 Duo E8400 are identical in this regard. In terms of cache, the Core 2 Duo E8400 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the A9-9420

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.