AMD A8-6410 vs Raspberry Pi 4 B (Broadcom BCM2711). Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  AMD A Broadcom BCM
• Generation
  3 4
• CPU group
  AMD A8-6000 Broadcom BCM2711

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
  2.00 GHz 1.50 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.40 GHz No turbo
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Turbo (4 Cores)
  2.40 GHz No turbo
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• A core
  -- 4x Cortex-A72

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 (Beema) Broadcom VideoCore VI
• GPU frequency
  0.80 GHz 0.50 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  2 4
• Shader
  128 64
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 2 GB
• Max. displays
  2 2
• Generation
  6 6
• DirectX Version
  12
• Technology
  28 nm 28 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2014 06/2019

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Raspberry Pi 4 B (Broadcom BCM2711) and AMD A8-6410. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM
• Max. Memory
  8192 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 1

• AES-NI
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD A8-6410 and Raspberry Pi 4 B (Broadcom BCM2711) to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  15 W 7.5 W
• TDP down
  -- 3 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD A8-6410 and AMD A8-6410, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V None
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4
• L2-Cache
  -- 1.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB --
• Architecture
  Richland (Piledriver) Cortex-A72
• Technology
  32 nm 28 nm
• Socket
  AM1 N/A
• Release date
  Q2/2014 06/2019