A12-9700P: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

A12-9700P provides poor benchmark performance at 1.59% of a leader's which is a 96-core Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX.

Summary

AMD started A12-9700P sales 1 June 2016. This is a Bristol Ridge 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 3400 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is FP4 processor with a TDP of 15 Watt. It supports DDR3, DDR4 memory.

Primary details

A12-9700P processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking2118
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Market segmentLaptop
SeriesAMD Bristol Ridge
Power efficiency9.67of 100.00 (Core Ultra 7 164U)
Architecture codenameBristol Ridge (2016−2019)
Release date1 June 2016 (8 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 cores4 (Quad-Core)
Threads4
Base clock speed2.5 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed3.4 GHzof 50 MHz (i486DX-50)
L2 cache2048 KBof 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
Chip lithography28 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Die size250 mm2
Maximum core temperature90 °Cof 110 °C (Atom x7-E3950)
Number of transistors3100 Millionof 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-

Compatibility

Information on A12-9700P 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.

SocketFP4
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattof 3100 ‑ 4500 (Ryzen 7 7435H)

Technologies and extensions

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

AES-NI+
FMAFMA4
FRTC+
FreeSync+
DualGraphics+

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 A12-9700P's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3, DDR4
Max memory channels2of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)

Graphics specifications

General parameters of a GPU integrated into A12-9700P.

Integrated graphics cardAMD Radeon R7 Graphics
iGPU core count6
Enduro+
Switchable graphics+
UVD+
VCE+

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of A12-9700P's integrated GPU.

DisplayPort+
HDMI+

Graphics API support

APIs supported by A12-9700P's integrated GPU, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectXDirectX® 12
Vulkan+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version3.0of 5.0 (Core i9-12900K)
PCI Express lanes8of 128 (EPYC 7551P)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of A12-9700P. 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.

A12-9700P 1.59

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.

A12-9700P 2428

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.

A12-9700P 2429

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.

A12-9700P 6168

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.

A12-9700P 3498

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.

A12-9700P 2

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

A12-9700P 226

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.

A12-9700P 79

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.

A12-9700P 0.85

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.

A12-9700P 1.8

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.  

A12-9700P 17

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.  

A12-9700P 85

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.

A12-9700P 1462

Geekbench 3 32-bit multi-core

A12-9700P 5464

Geekbench 3 32-bit single-core

A12-9700P 2091

Geekbench 4.0 64-bit multi-core

A12-9700P 4899

Geekbench 4.0 64-bit single-core

A12-9700P 2158

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

A12-9700P's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook CPUs.


Core i7-4610Y 100.63
3020e 100
A12-9700P 100

Intel equivalent

According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to A12-9700P is Core i5-5250U, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 2 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest Intel rivals to A12-9700P:

Core i7-4610Y 100.63
A12-9700P 100

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