Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 vs AMD A9-9420

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs AMD A9-Series APU for Laptops 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD A9-9420

Price

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$ 48.21

$ 146.79 significantly less expensive

$ 195.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

784 points

13% slightly better overall score

692 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1436 points

1528 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

602 points

22% slightly better multitasking score

492 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

580 points

22% slightly better heavy workload score

472 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

7.45 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

7.36 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1016 points

103% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

500 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

318 points

325 points

2% slightly 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

2.33 GHz

3 GHz

28% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,009th of 1,089

1,031st of 1,089

Family

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Core

A9-Series APU for Laptops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Core 2 Quad Q8200 vs A9-9420 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core 2 Quad Q8200 beats the A9-9420 in overall performance. Despite this, the A9-9420 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 2 Quad Q8200 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the A9-9420 has 2 cores. 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 Core 2 Quad Q8200. In terms of cache, the Core 2 Quad Q8200 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to 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 Core 2 Quad Q8200 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.