Athlon X2 QL-60 vs A12-9700P

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Primary details

Comparing A12-9700P and Athlon X2 QL-60 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking2120not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD Bristol Ridge2x AMD Athlon
Power efficiency9.67no data
Architecture codenameBristol Ridge (2016−2019)Lion (2008−2009)
Release date1 June 2016 (8 years ago)3 June 2008 (16 years ago)

Detailed specifications

A12-9700P and Athlon X2 QL-60 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 cores4 (Quad-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads42
Base clock speed2.5 GHzno data
Boost clock speed3.4 GHz1.9 GHz
Bus rateno data3600 MHz
L1 cacheno data256 KB
L2 cache2048 KB1 MB
L3 cacheno data0 KB
Chip lithography28 nm65 nm
Die size250 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature90 °Cno data
Number of transistors3100 Millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on A12-9700P and Athlon X2 QL-60 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.

Number of CPUs in a configurationno data1
SocketFP4S1
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by A12-9700P and Athlon X2 QL-60. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataMMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD Virtualization
AES-NI+-
FMAFMA4-
FRTC+-
FreeSync+-
DualGraphics+-
PowerNow-+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by A12-9700P and Athlon X2 QL-60 are enumerated here.

AMD-V++

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by A12-9700P and Athlon X2 QL-60. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3, DDR4no data
Max memory channels2no data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardAMD Radeon R7 Graphicsno data
iGPU core count6no data
Enduro+-
Switchable graphics+-
UVD+-
VCE+-

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of A12-9700P and Athlon X2 QL-60 integrated GPUs.

DisplayPort+-
HDMI+-

Graphics API support

APIs supported by A12-9700P and Athlon X2 QL-60 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectXDirectX® 12no data
Vulkan+-

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by A12-9700P and Athlon X2 QL-60.

PCIe version3.0no data
PCI Express lanes8no 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.

A12-9700P 2428
+344%
Athlon X2 QL-60 547

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.

A12-9700P 2429
+90.8%
Athlon X2 QL-60 1273

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.

A12-9700P 6168
+120%
Athlon X2 QL-60 2803

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.

A12-9700P 3498
+159%
Athlon X2 QL-60 1352

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2016 3 June 2008
Physical cores 4 2
Threads 4 2
Chip lithography 28 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 35 Watt

A12-9700P has an age advantage of 7 years, 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads, a 132.1% more advanced lithography process, and 133.3% lower power consumption.

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