Intel Core i5-4200U vs AMD A9-9420. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  Intel Core i5 AMD A
• Generation
  4 4
• CPU group
  Intel Core i 4000U AMD A9-9000

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  1.60 GHz 3.00 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.60 GHz 3.60 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 2
• Turbo (2 Cores)
  2.30 GHz 3.00 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal normal

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  Intel HD Graphics 4400 AMD Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge)
• GPU frequency
  0.20 GHz 0.85 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  1.00 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  20 3
• Shader
  160 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 2 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  7.5 7
• DirectX Version
  11.1 12
• Technology
  22 nm 28 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2013 Q2/2016

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode
• VP9
  No Decode
• VP8
  No Decode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD A9-9420 and Intel Core i5-4200U. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM DDR4-2133
• Max. Memory
  8 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 1
• PCIe version
  2.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  12 8

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Core i5-4200U and AMD A9-9420 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  15 W 15 W
• TDP up
  -- 25 W
• TDP down
  -- 10 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 90 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Core i5-4200U and Intel Core i5-4200U, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4
• L3-Cache
  3.00 MB 2.00 MB
• Architecture
  Haswell U Stoney Ridge (Excavator)
• Technology
  22 nm 28 nm
• Socket
  BGA 1168 FP4
• Release date
  Q3/2013 Q2/2017