AMD A8-9600: specs and benchmarks

General info Technical specs Technologies Memory Integrated video card Benchmarks Gaming Intel equivalent Advices and comments

Summary

AMD started AMD A8-9600 sales on July 2017 at a recommended price of $78. This is Bristol Ridge architecture desktop 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 3400 and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is AM4 processor with a TDP of 65 Watt and a maximum temperature of 74 °C. It supports DDR4-2400 memory.

It provides poor benchmark performance at 10.49 percent of a leader's which is AMD EPYC 7742.

General info

Of A8-9600 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture and sales start time and price.

Place in performance rating

798

Value for money (0-100)

24.74

Type

Desktop

Achitecture codename

Bristol Ridge

Release date

on July 2017

Launch price (MSRP)

$78

of 999 (Xeon W3530)

Price now

$60

of 8685 (Xeon E5-4650L)

Technical specs

A8-9600's quantitative parameters such as cores and threads number, clocks, manufacturing process, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of A8-9600's performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Number of cores

Number of threads

Maximum frequency

3.4 GHz

of 5 (FX-9590)

L2 cache

2048 KB

of 32768 (EPYC 7702)

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

of 7 (Ryzen 3 3300)

Die size

246 mm²

Maximum core temperature

90 °C

of 110 (Atom x7-E3950)

Maximum case temperature (TCase)

74 °C

of 105 (Core i7-5557U)

Transistor count

1,178 million

of 19200 (Ryzen 7 3700)

64 bit support

Compatibility

Information on A8-9600 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one.

Max number of CPUs in a configuration

of 8 (Opteron 848 HE)

Socket

AM4

Power consumption (TDP)

65 Watt

of 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282)

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by A8-9600. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

AES-NI

FMA

AVX

FRTC

FreeSync

PowerTune

TrueAudio

PowerNow

PowerGating

VirusProtect

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by A8-9600 are enumerated here.

AMD-V

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by A8-9600.

Supported memory types

DDR4-2400

of 3200 (Ryzen Embedded V1807B)

Max memory channels

of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)

Graphics specifications

General parameters of GPU integrated into A8-9600.

Integrated graphics

AMD Radeon R7 Graphics

iGPU core count

Enduro

UVD

VCE

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of A8-9600's integrated GPU.

DisplayPort

HDMI

Graphics API support

APIs supported by A8-9600's integrated GPU, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX

DirectX® 12

Vulkan

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of A8-9600's supported peripherals.

PCIe revision

3.0

Max number of PCIe lanes

of 128 (EPYC 7551P)

Benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of A8-9600. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

10.49

Passmark

4968

Game benchmarks

Let's see how good A8-9600 is for gaming compared with game system requirements. Remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.

Relative perfomance

Overall A8-9600 performance compared to nearest competitors. All CPU types participate.

100 %

AMD A8-9600

Intel equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to A8-9600 from Intel is Core i5-2400S, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 3 positions in our rating.