Intel Core i3-4170 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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$ 41.60

$ 153.40 significantly less expensive

$ 195.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1489 points

115% significantly better overall score

692 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2858 points

87% significantly better gaming score

1528 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1121 points

127% significantly better multitasking score

492 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1076 points

127% significantly better heavy workload score

472 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.13 points

268% significantly higher Blender score

7.36 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2036 points

307% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

500 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1049 points

222% 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

3.7 GHz

23% slightly higher clock speed

3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

54 W

15 W

259% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

811th 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

2015 February

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

Yes

Core i3-4170 vs A9-9420 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-4170 performs better than the A9-9420. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A9-9420 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i3-4170 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-4170 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the A9-9420.

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 i3-4170 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.