Intel Core i7-6600U vs AMD A12-9720P

Core i7-6600U vs A12-9720P specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-6600U beats the A12-9720P in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A12-9720P in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the A12-9720P has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-6600U has 2 cores. 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.

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 i7-6600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.