AMD A10-4657M vs AMD Ryzen 9 5950X. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Desktop / Server
• Family
  AMD A AMD Ryzen
• Generation
  2 4
• CPU group
  AMD A10-4000M AMD Ryzen 5000
• 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
  2.30 GHz 3.40 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 16
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.20 GHz 4.90 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 32
• Hyperthreading
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No 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
  AMD Radeon HD 7660G no iGPU
• GPU frequency
  0.50 GHz --
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.69 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  6 --
• Shader
  384 --
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB --
• Max. displays
  2 --
• Generation
  4 --
• DirectX Version
  11.2 --
• Technology
  32 nm --
• Release date
  Q2/2012 --

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
  Decode No
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode No
• VC-1
  No No
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 9 5950X and AMD A10-4657M. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1600 DDR4-3200
• Max. Memory
  128 GB
• ECC
  No Yes
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  4.0
• PCIe lanes
  20

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD A10-4657M and AMD Ryzen 9 5950X to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

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

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD A10-4657M and AMD A10-4657M, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V AMD-V, SVM
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  -- 8.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 64.00 MB
• Architecture
  Trinity (Piledriver) Vermeer (Zen 3)
• Technology
  32 nm 7 nm
• Socket
  N/A AM4
• Release date
  Q1/2013 Q4/2020