AMD A9-9425 vs AMD Athlon II X2 240

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

698 points
750 points
7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1534 points
1634 points
6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

500 points
535 points
7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

484 points
514 points
6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

763 points
49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
511 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

573 points
91% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
299 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

2
Identical
2

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz
10% slightly higher clock speed
2.8 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

1,030th of 1,089
1,018th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A9-Series APU for Laptops
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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A9-9425 vs Athlon II X2 240 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Athlon II X2 240 beats the A9-9425 in overall performance. Despite this, the A9-9425 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A9-9425 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X2 240. In terms of cache, the Athlon II X2 240 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the A9-9425

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 A9-9425 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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