Athlon II M320 vs A12-9700P
Primary details
Comparing A12-9700P and Athlon II M320 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.
Place in performance ranking | 1991 | not rated |
Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
Series | AMD Bristol Ridge | AMD Athlon II |
Architecture codename | Bristol Ridge (2016−2019) | Caspian (2009) |
Release date | 1 June 2016 (7 years ago) | 10 September 2009 (14 years ago) |
Current price | $536 | $131 |
Detailed specifications
A12-9700P and Athlon II M320 basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.
Physical cores | 4 (Quad-Core) | 2 (Dual-core) |
Threads | 4 | 2 |
Base clock speed | 2.5 GHz | no data |
Boost clock speed | 3.4 GHz | 2.1 GHz |
Bus support | no data | 3200 MHz |
L1 cache | no data | 128 KB |
L2 cache | 2048 KB | 1 MB |
Chip lithography | 28 nm | 45 nm |
Die size | 250 mm2 | no data |
Maximum core temperature | 90 °C | no data |
Number of transistors | 3100 Million | no data |
64 bit support | + | + |
Windows 11 compatibility | - | - |
Unlocked multiplier | No | No |
Compatibility
Information on A12-9700P and Athlon II M320 compatibility with other computer components: 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.
Socket | FP4 | Socket S1 (S1g3) |
Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | 35 Watt |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by A12-9700P and Athlon II M320. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
Instruction set extensions | Dual-Channel DDR3/DDR4-1866 Memory Controller, PCIe 3.0 x8 | MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD Virtualization, DDR2 400 MHz Memory Controller |
AES-NI | 1 | no data |
FMA | FMA4 | no data |
FRTC | 1 | no data |
FreeSync | 1 | no data |
PowerTune | - | no data |
DualGraphics | 1 | no data |
TrueAudio | - | no data |
PowerNow | - | + |
PowerGating | - | no data |
Out-of-band client management | - | no data |
VirusProtect | - | no data |
RAID | - | no data |
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by A12-9700P and Athlon II M320 are enumerated here.
AMD-V | 1 | no data |
IOMMU 2.0 | - | no data |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by A12-9700P and Athlon II M320. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.
Supported memory types | DDR3, DDR4-1866 | DDR2 |
Max memory channels | 2 | no data |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.
Integrated graphics card | AMD Radeon R7 Graphics | no data |
iGPU core count | 6 | no data |
Enduro | + | no data |
Switchable graphics | 1 | no data |
UVD | + | no data |
VCE | + | no data |
Graphics interfaces
Available interfaces and connections of A12-9700P and Athlon II M320 integrated GPUs.
DisplayPort | + | no data |
HDMI | + | no data |
Graphics API support
APIs supported by A12-9700P and Athlon II M320 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.
DirectX | DirectX® 12 | no data |
Vulkan | 1 | no data |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by A12-9700P and Athlon II M320.
PCIe version | 3.0 | no data |
PCI Express lanes | 8 | no data |
Synthetic benchmark performance
Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
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%
A12-9700P outperforms Athlon II M320 by 229% in Passmark.
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%
A12-9700P outperforms Athlon II M320 by 35% in Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core.
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%
A12-9700P outperforms Athlon II M320 by 77% in Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core.
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%
A12-9700P outperforms Athlon II M320 by 110% in 3DMark06 CPU.
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%
A12-9700P outperforms Athlon II M320 by 106% in Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core.
Pros & cons summary
Recency | 1 June 2016 | 10 September 2009 |
Physical cores | 4 | 2 |
Threads | 4 | 2 |
Chip lithography | 28 nm | 45 nm |
Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | 35 Watt |
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