Intel Core i5-10210U vs AMD A9-9420

Core i5-10210U vs A9-9420 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-10210U beats the A9-9420 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A9-9420 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-10210U has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the A9-9420 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the A9-9420. Our comparison shows that the A9-9420 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10210U. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache

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 i5-10210U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.