A12-9700P vs Core i7-4500U

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Aggregated performance score

Core i7-4500U
2013
2 cores / 4 threads
1.62
+1.3%

Core i7-4500U outperforms A12-9700P by 1% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

General info

Comparing Core i7-4500U and A12-9700P processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance ranking19651975
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel Core i7AMD Bristol Ridge
Architecture codenameHaswell-ULT (2013)Bristol Ridge (2016−2019)
Release date4 June 2013 (10 years old)1 June 2016 (7 years old)
Current price$626 $536

Technical specs

Core i7-4500U and A12-9700P basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores2 (Dual-core)4 (Quad-Core)
Threads44
Base clock speed1.8 GHz2.5 GHz
Boost clock speed3 GHz3.4 GHz
L1 cache64K (per core)no data
L2 cache256K (per core)2048 KB
L3 cache4 MB (shared)no data
Chip lithography22 nm28 nm
Die size118 mm2250 mm2
Maximum core temperature100 °C90 °C
Number of transistors1,300 million3100 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--
Unlocked multiplierNoNo

Compatibility

Information on Core i7-4500U and A12-9700P compatibility with other computer components: 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 configuration1no data
SocketFCBGA1168FP4
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Core i7-4500U and A12-9700P. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2Dual-Channel DDR3/DDR4-1866 Memory Controller, PCIe 3.0 x8
AES-NI+1
FMAno dataFMA4
AVX+no data
FRTCno data1
FreeSyncno data1
PowerTuneno data-
DualGraphicsno data1
TrueAudiono data-
PowerNowno data-
PowerGatingno data-
Out-of-band client managementno data-
VirusProtectno data-
RAIDno data-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+no data
Turbo Boost Technology2.0no data
Hyper-Threading Technology+no data
TSX-no data
Idle States+no data
Thermal Monitoring+no data
GPIO+no data
Smart Connect+no data
FDI+no data
AMT9.5no data
StatusDiscontinuedno data
HD Audio+no data
RST+no data

Security technologies

Core i7-4500U and A12-9700P technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT+no data
EDB+no data
Secure Key+no data
Identity Protection+no data
Anti-Theft+no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Core i7-4500U and A12-9700P are enumerated here.

AMD-V+1
VT-d-no data
VT-x+no data
EPT+no data
IOMMU 2.0no data-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Core i7-4500U and A12-9700P. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3DDR3, DDR4-1866
Maximum memory size16 GBno data
Max memory channels22
Maximum memory bandwidth25.6 GB/sno data
ECC memory support-no data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
Compare
Intel HD Graphics 4400AMD Radeon R7 Graphics
iGPU core countno data6
Max video memory2 GBno data
Quick Sync Video+no data
Clear Video HD+no data
Endurono data+
Switchable graphicsno data1
UVDno data+
VCEno data+
Graphics max frequency1.1 GHzno data
InTru 3D+no data

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Core i7-4500U and A12-9700P integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported3no data
eDP+no data
DisplayPort++
HDMI++
VGA+no data

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Core i7-4500U and A12-9700P integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

Max resolution over HDMI 1.43200x2000@60Hzno data
Max resolution over DisplayPort3200x2000@60Hzno data
Max resolution over VGAN/Ano data

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Core i7-4500U and A12-9700P integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX11.2/12DirectX® 12
OpenGL4.3no data
Vulkanno data1

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Core i7-4500U and A12-9700P.

PCIe version2.03.0
PCI Express lanes128
PCI support-no data
USB revision3.0no data
Total number of SATA ports4no data
Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Ports4no data
Integrated IDE-no data
Number of USB ports4no data
Integrated LAN-no data
UART+no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score 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.

i7-4500U 1.62
+1.3%
A12-9700P 1.60

Core i7-4500U outperforms A12-9700P by 1% based on our aggregated benchmark results.


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%

i7-4500U 2478
+1.3%
A12-9700P 2446

Core i7-4500U outperforms A12-9700P by 1% in Passmark.

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%

i7-4500U 4343
+78.8%
A12-9700P 2429

Core i7-4500U outperforms A12-9700P by 79% in Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core.

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%

i7-4500U 8700
+41.1%
A12-9700P 6168

Core i7-4500U outperforms A12-9700P by 41% in Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core.

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%

i7-4500U 3494
A12-9700P 3498
+0.1%

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%

i7-4500U 3
+21.1%
A12-9700P 2

Core i7-4500U outperforms A12-9700P by 21% in Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core.

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%

i7-4500U 260
+15.3%
A12-9700P 226

Core i7-4500U outperforms A12-9700P by 15% in Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core.

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%

i7-4500U 116
+46.8%
A12-9700P 79

Core i7-4500U outperforms A12-9700P by 47% in Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core.

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%

i7-4500U 1.31
+54.1%
A12-9700P 0.85

Core i7-4500U outperforms A12-9700P by 54% in Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core.

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%

i7-4500U 1.6
A12-9700P 1.8
+12.5%

A12-9700P outperforms Core i7-4500U by 13% in TrueCrypt AES.

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%

i7-4500U 2474
+69.2%
A12-9700P 1462

Core i7-4500U outperforms A12-9700P by 69% in WinRAR 4.0.

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%

i7-4500U 91
+7.1%
A12-9700P 85

Core i7-4500U outperforms A12-9700P by 7% in x264 encoding pass 1.

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%

i7-4500U 16
A12-9700P 17
+1.6%

A12-9700P outperforms Core i7-4500U by 2% in x264 encoding pass 2.

Geekbench 3 32-bit single-core

Benchmark coverage: 5%

i7-4500U 2751
+31.6%
A12-9700P 2091

Core i7-4500U outperforms A12-9700P by 32% in Geekbench 3 32-bit single-core.

Geekbench 3 32-bit multi-core

Benchmark coverage: 5%

i7-4500U 5348
A12-9700P 5464
+2.2%

A12-9700P outperforms Core i7-4500U by 2% in Geekbench 3 32-bit multi-core.

Gaming performance

Advantages and disadvantages


Performance score 1.62 1.60
Integrated graphics card 1.35
Recency 4 June 2013 1 June 2016
Physical cores 2 4
Chip lithography 22 nm 28 nm

We couldn't decide between Core i7-4500U and A12-9700P. The differences in performance seem too small.


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