Intel Core i5-3470 vs AMD A9-9420

Compare Intel Core 4 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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$ 217.39

$ 195.00

$ 22.39 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2030 points

193% significantly better overall score

692 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3732 points

144% significantly better gaming score

1528 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1551 points

215% significantly better multitasking score

492 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1489 points

215% significantly better heavy workload score

472 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

30.09 points

308% significantly higher Blender score

7.36 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1862 points

272% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

500 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

620 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

325 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

Identical

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

77 W

15 W

413% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

732nd of 1,118

1,061st of 1,118

Family

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Core

A9-Series APU for Laptops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 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 i5-3470 vs A9-9420 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3470 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 i5-3470 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the A9-9420 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the A9-9420. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-3470 has a slightly higher clock speed than the A9-9420. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The A9-9420 outputs less heat than Core i5-3470 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Core i5-3470 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.