AMD A4-6300 vs AMD Ryzen 5 2600X. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  AMD A AMD Ryzen
• Generation
  3 2
• CPU group
  AMD A4-6000 AMD Ryzen 2000
• Successor
  -- AMD Ryzen 5 3600X

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
  3.70 GHz 3.60 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 6
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.90 GHz 4.20 GHz
• CPU Threads
  2 12
• Hyperthreading
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Core architecture
  normal normal

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 HD 8370D no iGPU
• GPU frequency
  0.76 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  2
• Shader
  128
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB --
• Max. displays
  2
• Generation
  5
• DirectX Version
  11.2
• Technology
  32 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2013

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 No
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 5 2600X and AMD A4-6300. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1866 DDR4-2933
• Max. Memory
  64 GB
• ECC
  No Yes
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0
• PCIe lanes
  20

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD A4-6300 and AMD Ryzen 5 2600X to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  65 W 95 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 95 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD A4-6300 and AMD A4-6300, 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
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L3-Cache
  1.00 MB 16.00 MB
• Architecture
  Richland (Piledriver) Pinnacle Ridge (Zen+)
• Technology
  32 nm 12 nm
• Socket
  FM2 AM4
• Release date
  Q2/2013 Q2/2018