AMD A10-8700P vs AMD Ryzen 5 3500X. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  AMD A10-8000 AMD Ryzen 3000
• Family
  AMD A AMD Ryzen
• Generation
  5 3
• Predecessor
  - AMD Ryzen 5 2500X
• Segment
  Mobile Desktop / Server

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  1.8 GHz 3.6 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  4 6
• CPU Threads
  4 6
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  No turbo 4.1 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  3.2 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (6 Cores)
  - 4 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.

• DirectX Version
  12 -
• Execution units
  6 -
• Generation
  6 -
• GPU Frequency
  800 MHz -
• GPU name
  AMD Radeon R6 (Kaveri) no iGPU
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo
• Max. displays
  2 -
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB -
• Release date
  Q2/2015 -
• Shader
  384 -
• Technology
  28 nm -

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

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  Conflicting source values: Decode | Decode / Encode No
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 5 3500X and AMD A10-8700P. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No Yes
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR3-2133 -
• PCIe lanes
  - 20
• PCIe version
  - 4.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD A10-8700P and AMD Ryzen 5 3500X Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  90 °C 95 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  - 65 W
• TDP down
  35 W -
• TDP up
  12 W -

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD A10-8700P and AMD Ryzen 5 3500X, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Carizzo (Excavator) Matisse (Zen 2)
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L3-Cache
  2 MB 32 MB
• Release date
  Q2/2015 Q4/2019
• Socket
  AM1 AM4
• Technology
  28 nm 7 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V AMD-V, SVM