Intel Core i3-4030U 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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$ 1383.00

$ 195.00

$ 1188.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

767 points

10% slightly better overall score

692 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1414 points

1528 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

585 points

18% slightly better multitasking score

492 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

562 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

472 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

11.60 points

57% significantly higher Blender score

7.36 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1097 points

119% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

500 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

534 points

64% 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

1.9 GHz

3 GHz

57% 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

1,012th of 1,089

1,031st of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i3

A9-Series APU for Laptops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

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 i3-4030U vs A9-9420 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-4030U beats the A9-9420 in overall performance. 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 but the Core i3-4030U has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A9-9420 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-4030U.

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. Indeed, the Core i3-4030U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.