AMD A10-9620P vs AMD A12-9700P. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  AMD A AMD A
• Generation
  6 6
• CPU group
  AMD A10-9600 AMD A12-9700
• Predecessor
  No No
• Successor
  No No

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
  2.50 GHz 2.50 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.40 GHz 3.40 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Turbo (2 Cores)
  2.70 GHz 2.70 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• A core
  No No
• B core
  No No
• C core
  No No

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
  AMD Radeon R5 - 384 AMD Radeon R7 - 512
• GPU frequency
  0.76 GHz 0.76 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  5 8
• Shader
  384 512
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 2 GB
• Max. displays
  2 2
• Generation
  6 6
• DirectX Version
  12 12
• Technology
  28 nm 28 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2016 Q2/2016

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD A12-9700P and AMD A10-9620P. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-1866 DDR4-1866
• Max. Memory
  64 GB 64 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe
  3.0 x 8 3.0 x 8

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD A10-9620P and AMD A12-9700P to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  15 W 15 W
• TDP up
  No No
• TDP (PL2)
  No No
• TDP down
  No No
• Tjunction max.
  90 °C 90 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD A10-9620P and AMD A10-9620P, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V AMD-V
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, FMA4 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, FMA4
• L2-Cache
  2.00 MB 2.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  No No
• Architecture
  Excavator Excavator
• Technology
  28 nm 28 nm
• Socket
  FP4 FP4
• Release date
  Q4/2016 Q4/2016