A9-9420e: specs and benchmarks
Aggregated performance score
It provides poor benchmark performance at 0.70% of a leader's which is Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX.
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. It supports DDR4 memory.
General info
A9-9420e processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in performance ranking | 2572 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Series | AMD Bristol Ridge | |
| Architecture codename | Stoney Ridge (2016−2019) | |
| Release date | 1 June 2018 (5 years ago) | |
| Current price | $380 | of 15701 (Xeon Platinum 8276L) |
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 | |
| L2 cache | 1 MB | of 96 (Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX) |
| Chip lithography | 28 nm | of 3 (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
| Die size | 124.5 mm2 | |
| Maximum core temperature | 90 °C | of 110 (Atom x7-E3950) |
| Number of transistors | 1200 Million | of 9900000 (Ryzen 5 7645HX) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | |
| Unlocked multiplier | No |
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 |
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 | Single-Channel DDR4-2133?, 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.
Benchmark coverage: 68%
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%
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Intel equivalent
According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to A9-9420e is Pentium B970, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 5 positions in our ranking.
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Recommended GPUs
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