Core i5-3320M vs A12-9720P benchmarks
In our benchmarks, the A12-9720P beats the Core i5-3320M in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-3320M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.
In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the A12-9720P has significantly more cores than the Core i5-3320M. Indeed, the A12-9720P has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-3320M. But they both have the same number of threads. The A12-9720P outputs less heat than Core i5-3320M thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.
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 i5-3320M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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