Pentium 987 vs A6-4400M

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Aggregate performance score

A6-4400M
2012
2 cores / 2 threads, 35 Watt
0.64
+56.1%
Pentium 987
2013
2 cores / 2 threads, 17 Watt
0.41

A6-4400M outperforms Pentium 987 by an impressive 56% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing A6-4400M and Pentium 987 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking27752994
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD A-SeriesIntel Pentium
Power efficiency1.732.28
Architecture codenameTrinity (2012−2013)Sandy Bridge (2011−2013)
Release date15 May 2012 (12 years ago)1 February 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$134

Detailed specifications

A6-4400M and Pentium 987 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)2 (Dual-core)
Threads22
Base clock speed2.7 GHz1.5 GHz
Boost clock speed3.2 GHz1.5 GHz
Bus typeno dataDMI 2.0
Bus rateno data4 × 5 GT/s
Multiplierno data15
L1 cache96 KB128 KB
L2 cache1 MB (shared)512 KB
L3 cache0 KB2 MB (shared)
Chip lithography32 nm32 nm
Die size246 mm2131 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno data100 °C
Number of transistors1,178 million504 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on A6-4400M and Pentium 987 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 configuration11 (Uniprocessor)
SocketFS1r2FCBGA1023
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt17 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by A6-4400M and Pentium 987. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions86x SSE (1, 2, 3, 3S, 4.1, 4.2, 4A),-64, AES, AVX, FMAIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2
AES-NI+-
FMA++
AVX+-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
My WiFino data-
Turbo Boost Technologyno data-
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data-
Idle Statesno data+
Thermal Monitoring-+
Flex Memory Accessno data+
Demand Based Switchingno data-
FDIno data+
Fast Memory Accessno data+

Security technologies

A6-4400M and Pentium 987 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data-
EDBno data+
Anti-Theftno data-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by A6-4400M and Pentium 987 are enumerated here.

AMD-V+-
VT-dno data-
VT-xno data-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by A6-4400M and Pentium 987. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesunknownDDR3
Maximum memory sizeno data16.38 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
Maximum memory bandwidthno data21.335 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon HD 7520G (496 - 685 MHz)Intel HD Graphics for 2nd Generation Intel Processors
Graphics max frequencyno data1 GHz

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of A6-4400M and Pentium 987 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supportedno data2
eDPno data+
DisplayPort-+
HDMI-+
SDVOno data+
CRTno data+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by A6-4400M and Pentium 987.

PCIe versionno data2.0
PCI Express lanesno data16

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.

A6-4400M 0.64
+56.1%
Pentium 987 0.41

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.

A6-4400M 1013
+54.2%
Pentium 987 657

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

A6-4400M 314
+37.7%
Pentium 987 228

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

A6-4400M 398
+1.5%
Pentium 987 392

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.

A6-4400M 1804
+21.3%
Pentium 987 1487

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

A6-4400M 46.82
+2.5%
Pentium 987 48

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.

A6-4400M 1
Pentium 987 1

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.

A6-4400M 0.8
+35.6%
Pentium 987 0.59

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.

A6-4400M 0.7
+560%
Pentium 987 0.1

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.

A6-4400M 1353
+22.2%
Pentium 987 1107

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 0.64 0.41
Integrated graphics card 0.82 0.77
Recency 15 May 2012 1 February 2013
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 17 Watt

A6-4400M has a 56.1% higher aggregate performance score, and 6.5% faster integrated GPU.

Pentium 987, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 8 months, and 105.9% lower power consumption.

The A6-4400M is our recommended choice as it beats the Pentium 987 in performance tests.


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