AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs AMD A4-1250. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile
• Family
  AMD Ryzen AMD A
• Generation
  4 7
• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen 5000 AMD A4-1000
• Predecessor
  AMD Ryzen 9 3950X --

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
  3.40 GHz 1.00 GHz
• CPU Cores
  16 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  4.90 GHz No turbo
• CPU Threads
  32 2
• Hyperthreading
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  Yes 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
  no iGPU AMD Radeon HD 8210
• GPU frequency
  -- 0.30 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  -- 2
• Shader
  -- 128
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 2 GB
• Max. displays
  -- 2
• Generation
  -- 5
• DirectX Version
  -- 11.1
• Technology
  -- 28 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
  No Decode
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No Decode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD A4-1250 and AMD Ryzen 9 5950X. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-3200 DDR3L-1333 SO-DIMM
• Max. Memory
  128 GB
• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  4.0
• PCIe lanes
  20

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 9 5950X and AMD A4-1250 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  105 W 8 W
• TDP (PL2)
  142 W --
• Tjunction max.
  95 °C --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 9 5950X and AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM AMD-V
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4
• L2-Cache
  8.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  64.00 MB 1.00 MB
• Architecture
  Vermeer (Zen 3) Temash (Jaguar)
• Technology
  7 nm 28 nm
• Socket
  AM4 FT3
• Release date
  Q4/2020 Q2/2013