AMD A9-9420 vs AMD A6-9220. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  AMD A AMD A
• Generation
  4 6
• CPU group
  AMD A9-9000 AMD A6-9000

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
  3.00 GHz 2.50 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.60 GHz 2.90 GHz
• CPU Threads
  2 2
• Turbo (2 Cores)
  3.00 GHz 2.70 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• 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 R5 (Stoney Ridge) AMD Radeon R4 (Stoney Ridge)
• GPU frequency
  0.85 GHz 0.66 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  3 3
• Shader
  192 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 2 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  7 7
• DirectX Version
  12 12
• Technology
  28 nm 28 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2016 Q2/2016

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD A6-9220 and AMD A9-9420. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2133 DDR4-2133
• Max. Memory
  8 GB 8 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  1 1
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  8 8

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD A9-9420 and AMD A6-9220 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  15 W 15 W
• TDP up
  25 W --
• TDP down
  10 W 10 W
• Tjunction max.
  90 °C 90 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD A9-9420 and AMD A9-9420, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V AMD-V
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB 2.00 MB
• Architecture
  Stoney Ridge (Excavator) Stoney Ridge (Excavator)
• Technology
  28 nm 28 nm
• Socket
  FP4 FP4
• Release date
  Q2/2017 Q2/2017