Intel Pentium 2020M vs AMD A9-9420

Compare Intel Pentium 2000 Series 2 core CPU vs AMD A9-Series APU for Laptops 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD A9-9420

Price

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$ 216.00

$ 195.00

$ 21.00 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

766 points

10% slightly better overall score

692 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1683 points

10% slightly better gaming score

1528 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

544 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

492 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

523 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

472 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

10.63 points

44% significantly higher Blender score

7.36 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

711 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

500 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

409 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

325 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

3 GHz

25% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

15 W

133% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,042nd of 1,118

1,061st of 1,118

Family

The product line

Pentium 2000 Series

A9-Series APU for Laptops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Pentium 2020M vs A9-9420 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Pentium 2020M beats the A9-9420 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A9-9420 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the A9-9420 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium 2020M. The A9-9420 outputs less heat than Pentium 2020M thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Pentium 2020M has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.