AMD A12-9800 vs Intel Core i7-6500U. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop Mobile
• Family
  AMD A Intel Core i7
• Generation
  7 6
• CPU group
  AMD A12-9800 Intel Core i 6000U
• 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
  3.80 GHz 2.50 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  4.20 GHz 3.10 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Turbo (2 Cores)
  No turbo 2.80 GHz
• 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 Intel HD Graphics 520
• GPU frequency
  1.11 GHz 0.30 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 1.05 GHz
• Execution units
  8 24
• Shader
  512 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 32 GB
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Generation
  6 9
• DirectX Version
  12 12
• Technology
  28 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2016 Q3/2015

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
• h264
  Decode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode
• 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 Intel Core i7-6500U and AMD A12-9800. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2400 DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMMDDR4-2133 SO-DIMMLPDDR3-1866
• Max. Memory
  64 GB 32 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 2

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD A12-9800 and Intel Core i7-6500U to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

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

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD A12-9800 and AMD A12-9800, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, FMA4 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L2-Cache
  2.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  No 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Excavator Skylake U
• Technology
  28 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  AM4 BGA 1356
• Release date
  Q3/2017 Q3/2015