Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y vs AMD A12-9700P. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  Intel Pentium AMD A
• Generation
  10 6
• CPU group
  Intel Pentium 6000Y AMD A12-9700
• Predecessor
  No No
• Successor
  No No

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
  1.10 GHz 2.50 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.40 GHz 3.40 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Turbo (2 Cores)
  2.40 GHz 2.70 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  Yes 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
  Intel HD Graphics 615 AMD Radeon R7 - 512
• GPU frequency
  0.30 GHz 0.76 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.90 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  24 8
• Shader
  192 512
• Max. GPU Memory
  16 GB 2 GB
• Max. displays
  3 2
• Generation
  9.5 6
• DirectX Version
  12 12
• Technology
  14nm 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 / Encode No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode No
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode No
• VP8
  Decode / Encode No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD A12-9700P and Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM LPDDR3-1866 DDR4-1866
• Max. Memory
  16 GB 64 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe
  3.0 x 10 3.0 x 8

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y and AMD A12-9700P to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  5 W 15 W
• TDP up
  7 W No
• TDP (PL2)
  No No
• TDP down
  3.5 W No
• Tjunction max.
  100 °C 90 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y and Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, FMA4
• L2-Cache
  2.00 MB 2.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB No
• Architecture
  Amber Lake U Excavator
• Technology
  14 nm 28 nm
• Socket
  BGA 1515 FP4
• Release date
  Q1/2021 Q4/2016