AMD FX-9800P vs AMD A4-9120C. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  AMD FX AMD A
• CPU group
  AMD FX-9800 AMD A4-9000
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  4 6

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.

• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Overclocking
  No No
• Frequency
  2.70 GHz 1.60 GHz

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 (Bristol Ridge) AMD Radeon R4 (Stoney Ridge)
• GPU frequency
  0.76 GHz 0.60 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  8 3
• Shader
  512 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 2 GB
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Generation
  6 7
• 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)
  No Decode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode
• h264
  Decode Decode
• VP8
  No Decode
• VP9
  No Decode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD A4-9120C and AMD FX-9800P. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-1866 DDR4-1866
• Max. Memory
  64 GB 8 GB
• Memory channels
  2 1
• ECC
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD FX-9800P and AMD A4-9120C to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  15 W 6 W
• Tjunction max.
  90 °C 90 °C

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

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, FMA4 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4
• L2-Cache
  2.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  -- 2.00 MB
• Architecture
  Excavator (Bristol Ridge) Stoney Ridge (Excavator)
• Technology
  28 nm 28 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V AMD-V
• Socket
  FP4 FP4
• Release date
  Q2/2016 Q1/2019