A9-9420e vs Athlon II M320

Place in the ranking	2908	2707
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	AMD Athlon II	AMD Bristol Ridge
Power efficiency	1.27	4.42
Architecture codename	Caspian (2009)	Stoney Ridge (2016−2019)
Release date	10 September 2009 (15 years ago)	1 June 2018 (6 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Athlon II M320 and A9-9420e 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	2 (Dual-core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	2	2
Boost clock speed	2.1 GHz	no data
Bus rate	3200 MHz	no data
L1 cache	128 KB	no data
L2 cache	1 MB	1 MB
Chip lithography	45 nm	28 nm
Die size	no data	124.5 mm²
Maximum core temperature	no data	90 °C
Number of transistors	no data	1200 Million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-

Compatibility

Information on Athlon II M320 and A9-9420e 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.

Socket	Socket S1 (S1g3)	BGA
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon II M320 and A9-9420e. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD Virtualization	Virtualization,
PowerNow	+	-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon II M320 and A9-9420e are enumerated here.

AMD-V

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon II M320 and A9-9420e. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

DDR2

DDR4

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

no data

AMD Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge)

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.

Athlon II M320 0.47

A9-9420e 0.70
+48.9%

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.

Athlon II M320 749

A9-9420e 1107
+47.8%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.47	0.70
Recency	10 September 2009	1 June 2018
Chip lithography	45 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	15 Watt

A9-9420e has a 48.9% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 8 years, a 60.7% more advanced lithography process, and 133.3% lower power consumption.

The A9-9420e is our recommended choice as it beats the Athlon II M320 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions on choice between Athlon II M320 and A9-9420e, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.