Intel Pentium 2020M vs AMD PRO A10-8730B

Compare Intel Pentium 2000 Series 2 core CPU vs AMD PRO A-Series A10 APU for Laptops 4 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

766 points

1% slightly better overall score

755 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1683 points

17% slightly better gaming score

1434 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

544 points

570 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

523 points

547 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

10.63 points

14.96 points

40% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

667 points

927 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

391 points

443 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

Identical

2.4 GHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,013th of 1,089

1,017th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium 2000 Series

PRO A-Series A10 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 PRO A10-8730B benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Pentium 2020M beats the PRO A10-8730B in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the PRO A10-8730B in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the PRO A10-8730B has significantly more cores than the Pentium 2020M. Indeed, the PRO A10-8730B has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium 2020M. It also has more threads than the Pentium 2020M. In terms of clock speed, the Pentium 2020M and PRO A10-8730B are identical in this regard.

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. For instance, the Pentium 2020M has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.