A6-9220e vs A6-3420M

Place in the ranking	2606	2799
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	AMD A-Series	AMD Bristol Ridge
Power efficiency	2.19	9.62
Architecture codename	Llano (2011−2012)	Stoney Ridge (2016−2019)
Release date	20 December 2011 (13 years ago)	1 June 2017 (7 years ago)

Detailed specifications

A6-3420M and A6-9220e basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores	4 (Quad-Core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	4	2
Base clock speed	1.5 GHz	1.6 GHz
Boost clock speed	2.4 GHz	2.4 GHz
L1 cache	128 KB (per core)	160 KB
L2 cache	1 MB (per core)	1 MB
L3 cache	0 KB	no data
Chip lithography	32 nm	28 nm
Die size	228 mm²	124.5 mm²
Maximum core temperature	no data	90 °C
Number of transistors	1,178 million	1200 Million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-

Compatibility

Information on A6-3420M and A6-9220e compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration	1	no data
Socket	FS1	BGA
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by A6-3420M and A6-9220e. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions

3DNow!, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4a, Radeon HD 6480G

Virtualization,

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by A6-3420M and A6-9220e are enumerated here.

AMD-V

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by A6-3420M and A6-9220e. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

DDR3

DDR4

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon HD 6520G (400 MHz)

AMD Radeon R4 (Stoney Ridge) ( - 600 MHz)

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

A6-3420M 0.81
+32.8%

A6-9220e 0.61

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

A6-3420M 1293
+33.3%

A6-9220e 970

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

A6-3420M 1673
+58.4%

A6-9220e 1056

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

A6-3420M 5399
+210%

A6-9220e 1741

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

A6-3420M 23.64
+48.9%

A6-9220e 35.2

TrueCrypt AES

TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.

A6-3420M 0.3

A6-9220e 0.3
+30.8%

WinRAR 4.0

WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.

A6-3420M 1432
+176%

A6-9220e 519

x264 encoding pass 2

x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.

A6-3420M 11
+325%

A6-9220e 3

x264 encoding pass 1

x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.

A6-3420M 60
+306%

A6-9220e 15

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.81	0.61
Integrated graphics card	0.78	1.17
Recency	20 December 2011	1 June 2017
Physical cores	4	2
Threads	4	2
Chip lithography	32 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	6 Watt

A6-3420M has a 32.8% higher aggregate performance score, and 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads.

A6-9220e, on the other hand, has 50% faster integrated GPU, an age advantage of 5 years, a 14.3% more advanced lithography process, and 483.3% lower power consumption.

The A6-3420M is our recommended choice as it beats the A6-9220e in performance tests.

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