AMD A10-9700 vs AMD Ryzen 9 7950X. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  AMD A10-9700 AMD Ryzen 7000
• Family
  AMD A Ryzen
• Generation
  7 5
• Predecessor
  - AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
• Segment
  Desktop Desktop
• Form Factor
  - Desktops / Boxed Processor
• Series
  - Ryzen 7000 Series

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  3.5 GHz 4.5 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  4 16
• CPU Threads
  4 32
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.8 GHz 5.5 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  No turbo -
• Core Configuration
  - 16x
• Max. Boost Clock
  - 5.7 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (16 Cores)
  - 5.2 GHz

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

• DirectX Version
  12 -
• Execution units
  6 -
• Generation
  6 -
• GPU Frequency
  1050 MHz 2200 MHz
• GPU name
  AMD Radeon R7 - 384 AMD Radeon Graphics
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo
• Max. displays
  2 -
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB -
• Release date
  Q3/2017 -
• Shader
  384 -
• Technology
  28 nm -
• Graphics Cores
  - 2

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

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  Decode No
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 9 7950X and AMD A10-9700. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No Yes
• Max. Memory
  64 GB 256 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR4-2400 DDR5
• PCIe
  3.0 x 8 PCIe 5.0
• Memory Bandwidth
  - 83.2 GB/s

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD A10-9700 and AMD Ryzen 9 7950X Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  90 °C 95 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  65 W 170 W
• TDP (PL2)
  No 230 W
• TDP down
  45 W -
• TDP up
  No -
• Default TDP
  - 170 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD A10-9700 and AMD Ryzen 9 7950X, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Excavator Raphael (Zen 4)
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, FMA4 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  2 MB 16 MB
• L3-Cache
  No 64 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2017 2022-09-27
• Socket
  AM4 AM5
• Technology
  28 nm TSMC 5nm FinFET
• Virtualization
  AMD-V AMD-V, SVM
• Codename
  - Raphael AM5