Intel Core i7-6500U vs AMD A12-9720P

Core i7-6500U vs A12-9720P benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-6500U beats the A12-9720P in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A12-9720P in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the A12-9720P has significantly more cores than the Core i7-6500U. Indeed, the A12-9720P has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-6500U. But they both have the same number of threads. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-6500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.