Intel Core i5 M 430 vs AMD A9-9420

Core i5 M 430 vs A9-9420 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5 M 430 beats the A9-9420 in overall performance. Despite this, the A9-9420 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5 M 430 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A9-9420 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5 M 430. In terms of cache, the A9-9420 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5 M 430

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 M 430 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.