Intel Core i5-6300HQ vs AMD A12-9720P

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs AMD 4 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

1438 points

16% slightly better overall score

1234 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2667 points

12% slightly better gaming score

2365 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1096 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

930 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1053 points

18% slightly better heavy workload score

891 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.90 points

147% significantly higher Blender score

15.71 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2685 points

147% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1084 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

970 points

100% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

485 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2777 points

133% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1190 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1025 points

93% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

529 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

15 W

200% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

826th of 1,089

891st of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-6300HQ vs A12-9720P benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-6300HQ is faster than the A12-9720P. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A12-9720P in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. The A12-9720P outputs less heat than Core i5-6300HQ 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. For instance, the Core i5-6300HQ has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.