A9-9420e: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
A9-9420e provides poor benchmark performance at 0.70% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.
Summary
AMD started A9-9420e sales 1 June 2018. This is a Stoney Ridge architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems.
Compatibility-wise, this is BGA processor with a TDP of 15 Watt. It supports DDR4 memory.
Primary details
A9-9420e processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | 2722 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Series | AMD Bristol Ridge | |
| Power efficiency | 4.42 | of 100.00 (Core Ultra 7 164U) |
| Architecture codename | Stoney Ridge (2016−2019) | |
| Release date | 1 June 2018 (6 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
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 | |
| L2 cache | 1 MB | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
| Chip lithography | 28 nm | of 3 nm (Core Ultra 9 285K) |
| Die size | 124.5 mm2 | |
| Maximum core temperature | 90 °C | of 110 °C (Core Ultra 9 185H) |
| Number of transistors | 1200 Million | of 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - |
Compatibility
Information on A9-9420e 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.
| Socket | BGA | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | of 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by A9-9420e. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | Virtualization, |
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 A9-9420e's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR4 |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into A9-9420e.
| Integrated graphics card | AMD Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge) |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of A9-9420e. 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.
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.
Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core
Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.
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Intel equivalent
According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to A9-9420e is Celeron 1005M, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 3 positions in our ranking.
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Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for A9-9420e, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for A9-9420e in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 928 configurations using A9-9420e in our database.
