AMD A6-8500P: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started A6-8500P sales 3 June 2015. This is a Carrizo architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 2 cores and 2 threads, and is based on 28nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3000 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is FP4 processor with a TDP of 15 Watt.

Primary details

A6-8500P processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking	2540
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop
Series	AMD Carrizo
Power efficiency	5.74	of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme)
Architecture codename	Carrizo (2015−2018)
Release date	3 June 2015 (9 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
Base clock speed	1.6 GHz	of 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed	3 GHz	of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
L2 cache	1024 KB	of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
Chip lithography	28 nm	of 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Maximum core temperature	90 °C	of 110 °C (Atom x7-E3950)
Number of transistors	3100 Million	of 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X)
64 bit support	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-

Compatibility

Information on A6-8500P 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	FP4
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	of 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by A6-8500P. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	HSA 1.0
AES-NI	+
FMA	FMA4
AVX	AVX
FRTC	+
FreeSync	+
TrueAudio	+
PowerNow	+
PowerGating	+
Out-of-band client management	+
VirusProtect	+
HSA	+

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

AMD-V	+
IOMMU 2.0	+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by A6-8500P's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory types	Not Listed
Max memory channels	2	of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)

Graphics specifications

General parameters of a GPU integrated into A6-8500P.

Integrated graphics card	AMD Radeon R5 Graphics
iGPU core count	4
Enduro	+
Switchable graphics	+
UVD	+
VCE	+

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of A6-8500P's integrated GPU.

DisplayPort	+
HDMI	+

Graphics API support

APIs supported by A6-8500P's integrated GPU, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX	DirectX® 12
Vulkan	+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version

3.0

of 5.0 (Core i9-12900K)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of A6-8500P. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.

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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.

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Closest competitors

A6-8500P's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook CPUs.

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