Intel Core i3-4010U vs AMD A9-9420

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i3 2 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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$ 1426.00

$ 195.00

$ 1231.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

709 points

2% slightly better overall score

692 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1422 points

1528 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

524 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

492 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

503 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

472 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

12.63 points

71% significantly higher Blender score

7.36 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1076 points

115% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

500 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

511 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

325 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.7 GHz

3 GHz

76% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

Identical

15 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,055th of 1,118

1,061st of 1,118

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i3

A9-Series APU for Laptops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-4010U vs A9-9420 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-4010U is faster than the A9-9420. Despite this, the A9-9420 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i3-4010U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A9-9420 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i3-4010U. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. Indeed, the Core i3-4010U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.