Intel Pentium Silver N5000 vs AMD A12-9700P

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Combined performance score

A12-9700P
1.59

General info

Comparing A12-9700P and Pentium Silver N5000 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance ranking19661968
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD Bristol RidgeIntel Pentium Silver
Architecture codenameBristol Ridge (2016−2019)Gemini Lake (2019)
Release date1 June 2016 (7 years old)11 December 2017 (6 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$161
Current price$536 $358 (2.2x MSRP)

Technical specs

A12-9700P and Pentium Silver N5000 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)4 (Quad-Core)
Threads44
Base clock speed2.5 GHz1.1 GHz
Boost clock speed3.4 GHz2.7 GHz
L1 cacheno data256 KB
L2 cache2048 KB4 MB
L3 cacheno data4 MB
Chip lithography28 nm14 nm
Die size250 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature90 °C105 °C
Number of transistors3100 Millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+
Unlocked multiplierNoNo

Compatibility

Information on A12-9700P and Pentium Silver N5000 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
SocketFP4FCBGA1090
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by A12-9700P and Pentium Silver N5000. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsDual-Channel DDR3/DDR4-1866 Memory Controller, PCIe 3.0 x8Intel® SSE4.2
AES-NI1+
FMAFMA4no data
FRTC1no data
FreeSync1no data
PowerTune-no data
DualGraphics1no data
TrueAudio-no data
PowerNow-no data
PowerGating-no data
Out-of-band client management-no data
VirusProtect-no data
RAID-no data
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Speed Shiftno data-
Turbo Boost Technologyno data-
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data-
Idle Statesno data+
Thermal Monitoringno data+
Smart Responseno data-
GPIOno data+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0no data-
Statusno dataDiscontinued

Security technologies

A12-9700P and Pentium Silver N5000 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

EDBno data+
Secure Keyno data+
MPXno data+
Identity Protectionno data+
SGXno dataYes with Intel® ME
OS Guardno data+
Anti-Theftno data-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by A12-9700P and Pentium Silver N5000 are enumerated here.

AMD-V1no data
VT-dno data+
VT-xno data+
EPTno data+
IOMMU 2.0-no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by A12-9700P and Pentium Silver N5000. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3, DDR4-1866DDR4, DDR4
Maximum memory sizeno data8 GB
Max memory channels22
Maximum memory bandwidthno data38.397 GB/s
ECC memory supportno data-

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon R7 GraphicsIntel UHD Graphics 605
iGPU core count6no data
Max video memoryno data8 GB
Quick Sync Videono data+
Enduro+no data
Switchable graphics1no data
UVD+no data
VCE+no data
Graphics max frequencyno data750 MHz
Execution Unitsno data18

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of A12-9700P and Pentium Silver N5000 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supportedno data3
eDPno data+
DisplayPort++
HDMI++
MIPI-DSIno data+

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by A12-9700P and Pentium Silver N5000 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution supportno data+

Graphics API support

APIs supported by A12-9700P and Pentium Silver N5000 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectXDirectX® 1212
OpenGLno data4.4
Vulkan1no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by A12-9700P and Pentium Silver N5000.

PCIe version3.02.0
PCI Express lanes86
USB revisionno data2.0/3.0
Total number of SATA portsno data2
Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Portsno data2
Number of USB portsno data8
Integrated LANno data-
UARTno 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.


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.

A12-9700P 1.59
Pentium Silver N5000 1.59

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 2446
+0.2%
Pentium Silver N5000 2442

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 2429
+5.8%
Pentium Silver N5000 2295

A12-9700P outperforms Pentium Silver N5000 by 6% 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 6168
Pentium Silver N5000 6688
+8.4%

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A12-9700P by 8% 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 3498
+5.4%
Pentium Silver N5000 3320

A12-9700P outperforms Pentium Silver N5000 by 5% 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 2
Pentium Silver N5000 3
+23.3%

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A12-9700P by 23% in Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core.

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%

A12-9700P 226
Pentium Silver N5000 237
+4.9%

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A12-9700P by 5% in Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core.

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%

A12-9700P 79
+1.3%
Pentium Silver N5000 78

A12-9700P outperforms Pentium Silver N5000 by 1% in Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core.

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%

A12-9700P 0.85
Pentium Silver N5000 0.94
+10.6%

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A12-9700P by 11% in Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core.

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%

A12-9700P 1.8
Pentium Silver N5000 1.9
+5.6%

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A12-9700P by 6% in TrueCrypt AES.

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%

A12-9700P 1462
+17.4%
Pentium Silver N5000 1245

A12-9700P outperforms Pentium Silver N5000 by 17% in WinRAR 4.0.

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%

A12-9700P 85
+10.9%
Pentium Silver N5000 76

A12-9700P outperforms Pentium Silver N5000 by 11% in x264 encoding pass 1.

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%

A12-9700P 17
+8.2%
Pentium Silver N5000 15

A12-9700P outperforms Pentium Silver N5000 by 8% in x264 encoding pass 2.

Geekbench 3 32-bit single-core

Benchmark coverage: 5%

A12-9700P 2091
+17.6%
Pentium Silver N5000 1778

A12-9700P outperforms Pentium Silver N5000 by 18% in Geekbench 3 32-bit single-core.

Geekbench 3 32-bit multi-core

Benchmark coverage: 5%

A12-9700P 5464
Pentium Silver N5000 5548
+1.5%

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A12-9700P by 2% in Geekbench 3 32-bit multi-core.

Geekbench 4.0 64-bit multi-core

Benchmark coverage: 2%

A12-9700P 4899
Pentium Silver N5000 5488
+12%

Pentium Silver N5000 outperforms A12-9700P by 12% in Geekbench 4.0 64-bit multi-core.

Geekbench 4.0 64-bit single-core

Benchmark coverage: 2%

A12-9700P 2158
+5.5%
Pentium Silver N5000 2045

A12-9700P outperforms Pentium Silver N5000 by 6% in Geekbench 4.0 64-bit single-core.

Gaming performance

Advantages and disadvantages


Integrated graphics card 1.17
Recency 1 June 2016 11 December 2017
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 6 Watt

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