A6-9400: specs and benchmarks

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A6-9400
2019
2 cores / 2 threads, 65 Watt
1.71

A6-9400 provides poor benchmark performance at 1.71% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

AMD started A6-9400 sales 16 March 2019. This is a Bristol Ridge architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 2 cores and 2 threads, and is based on 28 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3700 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket AM4 processor with a TDP of 65 Watt. It supports DDR4-2400 memory.

Primary details

A6-9400 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking2054
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processor
Power efficiency2.49of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme)
Architecture codenameBristol Ridge (2016−2019)
Release date16 March 2019 (5 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 cores2 (Dual-core)
Threads2
Base clock speed3.4 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed3.7 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
L1 cache160Kof 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache1 MB (shared)of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
Chip lithography28 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Die size250 mm2
Number of transistors3,100 millionof 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X)
64 bit support+

Compatibility

Information on A6-9400 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.

Number of CPUs in a configuration1of 8 (Opteron 842)
SocketAM4
Power consumption (TDP)65 Wattof 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by A6-9400. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

AES-NI+
FMA+
AVX+

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 A6-9400's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4-2400

Graphics specifications

General parameters of a GPU integrated into A6-9400.

Integrated graphics cardRadeon R5

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 A6-9400. 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.

A6-9400 1.71

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.

A6-9400 2717

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

A6-9400's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop CPUs.


Core i7-870S 101.75
A10-5700 101.17
A6-9400 100
FX-4130 99.42

Intel equivalent

According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to A6-9400 is Celeron G4950, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 1 position in our ranking.

Here are some closest Intel rivals to A6-9400:

Celeron G5925 102.34
Core i7-870S 101.75
A6-9400 100
Core i5-680 97.66

Similar processors

Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for A6-9400, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for A6-9400 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 124 configurations using A6-9400 in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
0.8% (1/124)
RTX A6000 Quadro RTX A6000
0.8% (1/124)
RTX 3060 GeForce RTX 3060
0.8% (1/124)
RX 6500 XT Radeon RX 6500 XT
0.8% (1/124)
R9 390 Radeon R9 390
0.8% (1/124)
RX 580 Radeon RX 580
4% (5/124)
RX 470 Radeon RX 470
0.8% (1/124)
GTX 780 GeForce GTX 780
0.8% (1/124)
GTX 1650 GeForce GTX 1650
2.4% (3/124)

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