AMD A9-9420 vs AMD FX-9800P

Compare AMD A9-Series APU for Laptops 2 core CPU vs AMD 4 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

763 points

10% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1528 points

6% slightly better gaming score

1432 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

492 points

581 points

18% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

472 points

559 points

18% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

7.36 points

17.61 points

139% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

500 points

1113 points

122% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

325 points

514 points

58% significantly 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

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

11% slightly higher clock speed

2.7 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,061st of 1,118

1,043rd of 1,118

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 FX-9800P comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-9800P beats the A9-9420 in overall performance. Despite this, the A9-9420 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the FX-9800P has significantly more cores than the A9-9420. Indeed, the FX-9800P has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A9-9420. It also has more threads than the A9-9420. With our hardware info, we find that the A9-9420 has a slightly higher clock speed than the FX-9800P. The info from our database shows that the FX-9800P has more L2 cache than the A9-9420

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the A9-9420 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.