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

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

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

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

• Base Frequency
  1.1 GHz 2.5 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  2 4
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.4 GHz 3.4 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  2.4 GHz 2.7 GHz
• A-Core
  - No
• B-Core
  - No
• C-Core
  - No

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 12
• Execution units
  24 8
• Generation
  9.5 6
• GPU Frequency
  300 MHz 760 MHz
• GPU name
  Intel HD Graphics 615 AMD Radeon R7 - 512
• GPU Turbo
  900 MHz No turbo
• Max. displays
  3 2
• Max. GPU Memory
  16 GB 2 GB
• Release date
  Q2/2016 Q2/2016
• Shader
  192 512
• Technology
  14nm 28 nm

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

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

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.

• ECC
  No No
• Max. Memory
  16 GB 64 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM LPDDR3-1866 DDR4-1866
• 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 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
  100 °C 90 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  5 W 15 W
• TDP (PL2)
  No No
• TDP down
  3.5 W No
• TDP up
  7 W No

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y and AMD A12-9700P, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Amber Lake U Excavator
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• 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
• Release date
  Q1/2021 Q4/2016
• Socket
  BGA 1515 FP4
• Technology
  14 nm 28 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V