Intel Core i7-3770 vs AMD A4-9125

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs AMD A4-Series APU for Laptops 2 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

2575 points
324% significantly better overall score
606 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4118 points
211% significantly better gaming score
1324 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2119 points
389% significantly better multitasking score
433 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2036 points
389% significantly better heavy workload score
416 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.88 points
695% significantly higher Blender score
5.77 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2294 points
477% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
397 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

672 points
155% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
263 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2315 points
311% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
563 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

673 points
80% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
372 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
300% significantly more threads
2

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.40 GHz
47% significantly higher clock speed
2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
49% significantly higher turbo speed
2.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

77 W
15 W
413% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
100% significantly more memory channels
1

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
Identical
1 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

611th of 1,089
1,058th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
A4-Series APU for Laptops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
-

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-3770 vs A4-9125 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3770 beats the A4-9125 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A4-9125 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-3770 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the A4-9125 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the A4-9125. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3770 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the A4-9125. The A4-9125 outputs less heat than Core i7-3770 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache

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 i7-3770 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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