AMD A12-9700P vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500U. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  AMD A AMD Ryzen
• Generation
  6 4
• CPU group
  AMD A12-9700 AMD Ryzen 5000U
• Predecessor
  No --
• Successor
  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 2.10 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 6
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.40 GHz 4.00 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 12
• Hyperthreading
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• A core
  No --
• B core
  No --
• C core
  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 R7 - 512 AMD Radeon 7 Graphics (Renoir)
• GPU frequency
  0.76 GHz 1.80 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  8 7
• Shader
  512 448
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 2 GB
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Generation
  6 9
• DirectX Version
  12 12
• Technology
  28 nm 7 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2016 Q1/2020

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 5 5500U and AMD A12-9700P. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-1866 DDR4-3200
• Max. Memory
  64 GB 32 GB
• ECC
  No Yes
• Memory channels
  2 2

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD A12-9700P and AMD Ryzen 5 5500U 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 25 W
• TDP (PL2)
  No --
• TDP down
  No 10 W
• Tjunction max.
  90 °C 105 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD A12-9700P and AMD A12-9700P, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V AMD-V, SVM
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, FMA4 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  2.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  No 8.00 MB
• Architecture
  Excavator Lucienne (Zen 2)
• Technology
  28 nm 7 nm
• Socket
  FP4 FP6
• Release date
  Q4/2016 Q1/2021