Intel Core i5-650 vs AMD A9-9420e

Core i5-650 vs A9-9420e benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-650 performs better than the A9-9420e. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A9-9420e in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i5-650 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-650 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the A9-9420e.

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. Indeed, the Core i5-650 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.