A10-7850K: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregated performance score

It provides poor benchmark performance at 2.21% of a leader's which is AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX.

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Summary

AMD started A10-7850K sales 14 January 2014 at a recommended price of $173. This is a Godaveri architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 4 cores and 4 threads, and is based on 28nm manufacturing technology, with a max turbo frequency of 4000 MHz and an unlocked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is FM2+ processor with a TDP of 95 Watt and a maximum temperature of 74 °C. It supports DDR3-2133 memory.

General info

A10-7850K processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in performance ranking1717
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Value for money0.55
Market segmentDesktop processor
SeriesAMD A-Series (Desktop)
Architecture codenameGodaveri (2014−2018)
Release date14 January 2014 (10 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$173of 305 (Core i7-870)
Current price$73 (0.4x MSRP)of 17802 (Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX)

Value for money

Performance per price, higher is better.

Technical specs

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores4 (Quad-Core)
Threads4
Base clock speed3.7 GHzof 4.7 (Ryzen 9 7900X)
Boost clock speed4 GHzof 6.2 (Core i9-14900KS)
L1 cache256 KBof 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core)
L2 cache4096 KBof 98304 (Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX)
L3 cache0 KBof 786432 (EPYC 7773X)
Chip lithography28 nmof 3 (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Die size246 mm2
Maximum core temperature72 °Cof 110 (Core Ultra 7 165H)
Maximum case temperature (TCase)74 °Cof 105 (Core i7-5950HQ)
Number of transistors1,178 millionof 9900000 (Ryzen 5 7645HX)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-
Unlocked multiplierYes

Compatibility

Information on A10-7850K compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration1of 8 (Xeon Platinum 8160M)
SocketFM2+
Power consumption (TDP)95 Wattof 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by A10-7850K. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsSSE1-4A, AVX, FM4A, VT
AES-NI1
FMAFMA4
AVX+
FRTC1
FreeSync1
PowerTune-
DualGraphics1
TrueAudio+
PowerNow+
PowerGating+
Out-of-band client management+
VirusProtect+
HSA1

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

AMD-V+
IOMMU 2.0+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by A10-7850K's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3-2133
Max memory channels2of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)

Graphics specifications

General parameters of a GPU integrated into A10-7850K.

Integrated graphics cardAMD Radeon R7 Graphics
iGPU core count8
Number of pipelines512
Enduro+
Switchable graphics1
UVD+
VCE+

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of A10-7850K's integrated GPU.

DisplayPort+
HDMI+

Graphics API support

APIs supported by A10-7850K's integrated GPU, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectXDirectX® 12
Vulkan1

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version3.0of 5 (Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of A10-7850K. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

A10-7850K 2.21

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Benchmark coverage: 68%

A10-7850K 3416

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Benchmark coverage: 42%

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GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Benchmark coverage: 42%

A10-7850K 1149

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

Benchmark coverage: 20%

A10-7850K 3216

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

Benchmark coverage: 19%

A10-7850K 10278

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

Benchmark coverage: 19%

A10-7850K 4748

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

A10-7850K 4

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

Benchmark coverage: 15%

A10-7850K 318

Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.

Benchmark coverage: 15%

A10-7850K 86

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R11.5 is an old benchmark by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version loads a single thread with ray tracing to render a glossy room full of crystal spheres and light sources.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

A10-7850K 1.01

TrueCrypt AES

TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

A10-7850K 2.2

WinRAR 4.0

WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

A10-7850K 2140

x264 encoding pass 1

x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.  

Benchmark coverage: 13%

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x264 encoding pass 2

x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.  

Benchmark coverage: 13%

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Geekbench 3 32-bit single-core

Benchmark coverage: 5%

A10-7850K 2333

Geekbench 3 32-bit multi-core

Benchmark coverage: 5%

A10-7850K 7094

Geekbench 2

Benchmark coverage: 5%

A10-7850K 6502

3DMark Fire Strike Physics

Benchmark coverage: 4%

A10-7850K 3900

Geekbench 4.0 64-bit multi-core

Benchmark coverage: 2%

A10-7850K 6267

Geekbench 4.0 64-bit single-core

Benchmark coverage: 2%

A10-7850K 2621

Gaming performance

Relative performance

Overall A10-7850K performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop CPUs.


Intel equivalent

According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to A10-7850K is Core i5-2300, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 1 position in our ranking.

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Here are some closest Intel rivals to A10-7850K:

A10-7850K 100
Core i3-4150 99.55
Core i5 98.19

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Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for A10-7850K, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for A10-7850K in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 1464 configurations based on A10-7850K in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
0.1% (2/1464)
RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
0.07% (1/1464)
RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
0.1% (2/1464)
RX 6900 XT Radeon RX 6900 XT
0.07% (1/1464)
RTX 3080 GeForce RTX 3080
0.2% (3/1464)
RTX 3070 GeForce RTX 3070
0.07% (1/1464)
RX 6800 Radeon RX 6800
0.07% (1/1464)
RX 6750 XT Radeon RX 6750 XT
0.07% (1/1464)
RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
0.2% (3/1464)
RX 6700 XT Radeon RX 6700 XT
0.07% (1/1464)

User Ratings

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