AMD A8-7100: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

AMD started A8-7100 sales 4 June 2014. This is a Kaveri architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 4 cores and 4 threads, and is based on 28nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3000 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is FP3 processor with a TDP of 19 Watt. It supports DDR3-1600 memory.

It provides poor benchmark performance at 1.07% of a leader's which is AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX.

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General info

A8-7100 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in performance ranking2280
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Market segmentLaptop
SeriesAMD Kaveri
Architecture codenameKaveri (2014−2015)
Release date4 June 2014 (9 years old)
Current price$422 of 17802 (Threadripper PRO 7995WX)

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 speed1.8 GHzof 4.7 (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed3 GHzof 6.2 (Core i9-14900KS)
L2 cache4096 KBof 36864 (Apple M2 Max)
Chip lithography28 nmof 3 (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Die size245 mm2
Number of transistors2410 Millionof 9900000 (Ryzen 5 7645HX)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-
Unlocked multiplierNo

Compatibility

Information on A8-7100 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.

SocketFP3
Power consumption (TDP)19 Wattof 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by A8-7100. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions86x SSE (1, 2, 3, 3S, 4.1, 4.2, 4A),-64, AES, AVX, FMA, DDR3-1600 Controller
AES-NI+
FMA+
AVX+
FRTC1
PowerTune-
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-V1
IOMMU 2.0+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by A8-7100's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3-1600of 5600 (Ryzen 9 7940HS)
Max memory channels2of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)

Graphics specifications

General parameters of a GPU integrated into A8-7100.

Integrated graphics cardAMD Radeon R5 Graphics
iGPU core count4
Enduro+
Switchable graphics1
UVD+
VCE+

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of A8-7100's integrated GPU.

DisplayPort+
HDMI+

Graphics API support

APIs supported by A8-7100's integrated GPU, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectXDirectX® 12
Vulkan1

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version3.0of 5 (Core i9-12900K)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of A8-7100. 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.

A8-7100 1.07

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%

A8-7100 1641

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%

A8-7100 301

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%

A8-7100 757

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%

A8-7100 1379

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%

A8-7100 4134

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%

A8-7100 2225

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%

A8-7100 2

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%

A8-7100 133

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%

A8-7100 44

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%

A8-7100 0.55

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%

A8-7100 1.1

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%

A8-7100 1417

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%

A8-7100 56

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%

A8-7100 11

Geekbench 3 32-bit single-core

Benchmark coverage: 5%

A8-7100 1473

Geekbench 3 32-bit multi-core

Benchmark coverage: 5%

A8-7100 3337

Geekbench 2

Benchmark coverage: 5%

A8-7100 3914

Gaming performance

Relative perfomance

Overall A8-7100 performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook CPUs.


Intel equivalent

According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to A8-7100 is Core i3-4010U, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 4 positions in our ranking.

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