AMD Ryzen 7 1700 vs AMD A6-3600. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen 1000 AMD A6-3000
• Family
  AMD Ryzen AMD A
• Generation
  1 1
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server

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

• Base Frequency
  3 GHz 2.1 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  8 4
• CPU Threads
  16 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  Yes Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.7 GHz 2.4 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
  3.3 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  - 2.4 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
  - 11
• Execution units
  - 5
• Generation
  - 3
• GPU Frequency
  - 440 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU AMD Radeon HD 6530D
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo
• Max. displays
  - 0
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 1 GB
• Release date
  - Q4/2010
• Shader
  - 320
• Technology
  - 32 nm

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD A6-3600 and AMD Ryzen 7 1700. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR4-2666 DDR3-1600
• PCIe lanes
  20 -
• PCIe version
  3.0 -

• AES-NI
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 7 1700 and AMD A6-3600 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
  95 °C -
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  65 W 65 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 7 1700 and AMD A6-3600, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Summit Ridge (Zen) Llano (K10)
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE3, SSE4a
• L3-Cache
  16 MB 4 MB
• Release date
  Q1/2017 Q3/2011
• Socket
  AM4 FM1
• Technology
  14 nm 32 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM AMD-V