AMD A6-9400: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
AMD started AMD A6-9400 sales 16 March 2019. This is a Bristol Ridge architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 2 cores and 2 threads, and is based on 28 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3700 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket AM4 processor with a TDP of 65 Watt. It supports DDR4-2400 memory.
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General info
A6-9400 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
Place in performance rating | 1693 | |
Market segment | Desktop processor | |
Architecture codename | Bristol Ridge (2016−2019) | |
Release date | 16 March 2019 (4 years old) |
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 cores | 2 (Dual-core) | |
Threads | 2 | |
Base clock speed | 3.4 GHz | of 4.7 (FX-9590) |
Boost clock speed | 3.7 GHz | of 6 (Core i9-13900KS) |
L1 cache | 160K | of 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core) |
L2 cache | 1 MB (shared) | of 36 (Apple M2 Max) |
Chip lithography | 28 nm | of 4 (Ryzen 9 7940HS) |
Die size | 250 mm2 | |
Number of transistors | 3,100 million | of 9900000 (Ryzen 5 7645HX) |
64 bit support | + |
Compatibility
Information on A6-9400 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 configuration | 1 | of 8 (Opteron 842) |
Socket | AM4 | |
Thermal design power (TDP) | 65 Watt | of 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by A6-9400. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
AES-NI | + | |
FMA | + | |
AVX | + |
Virtualization technologies
Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.
AMD-V | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by A6-9400's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
Supported memory types | DDR4-2400 | of 5600 (Ryzen 9 7940HS) |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into A6-9400.
Integrated graphics card | Radeon R5 |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.
PCIe version | 3.0 | of 5 (Core i9-12900K) |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of A6-9400. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
Overall 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.
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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: 67%
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Relative perfomance
Overall A6-9400 performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop CPUs.
Intel equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to A6-9400 by Intel is Celeron G4950, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 1 position in our rating.
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Similar processors
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Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for A6-9400, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for A6-9400 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 76 configurations based on A6-9400 in our database.