Intel Core i3-5005U vs AMD A9-9420

Compare Intel 5th 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

862 points
24% slightly better overall score
692 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1677 points
9% slightly better gaming score
1528 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

645 points
31% slightly better multitasking score
492 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

619 points
31% slightly better heavy workload score
472 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

12.92 points
75% significantly higher Blender score
7.36 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1222 points
144% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
500 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

609 points
87% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
325 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
100% significantly more threads
2

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz
3 GHz
49% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
Identical
15 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.25 MiB
1 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

988th of 1,089
1,031st of 1,089

Family

The product line

5th Generation Core i3
A9-Series APU for Laptops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Core i3-5005U vs A9-9420 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-5005U performs better than the A9-9420. Despite this, the A9-9420 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i3-5005U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A9-9420 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i3-5005U. The info from our database shows that the A9-9420 has more L2 cache than the Core i3-5005U

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i3-5005U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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