A6-9500: specs and benchmarks

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A6-9500
2017
2 cores / 2 threads, 65 Watt
1.18

A6-9500 provides poor benchmark performance at 1.18% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

AMD started A6-9500 sales 27 July 2017 at a recommended price of $64. This is a Bristol Ridge architecture desktop 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 3800 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is AM4 processor with a TDP of 65 Watt and a maximum temperature of 74 °C. It supports DDR4-2400 memory.

Primary details

A6-9500 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking2368
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation2.62
Market segmentDesktop processor
Power efficiency1.72of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme)
Architecture codenameBristol Ridge (2016−2019)
Release date27 July 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$64of 17,906 (Xeon Platinum 8280L)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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 speed3.5 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed3.8 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
L2 cache1024 KBof 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache0 KBof 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography28 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Die size246 mm2
Maximum core temperature90 °Cof 110 °C (Atom x7-E3950)
Maximum case temperature (TCase)74 °Cof 105 °C (Core i7-5950HQ)
Number of transistors1,178 millionof 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-

Compatibility

Information on A6-9500 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 A6-9500. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

AES-NI+
FMA+
AVX+
FRTC+
FreeSync+
PowerTune+
TrueAudio+
PowerNow+
PowerGating+
VirusProtect+

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 A6-9500's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4-2400
Max memory channels2of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)

Graphics specifications

General parameters of a GPU integrated into A6-9500.

Integrated graphics cardAMD Radeon R5 Graphics
iGPU core count6
Enduro+
UVD+
VCE+

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of A6-9500's integrated GPU.

DisplayPort+
HDMI+

Graphics API support

APIs supported by A6-9500'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 A6-9500. 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.

A6-9500 1.18

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.

A6-9500 1870

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.

A6-9500 631

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.

A6-9500 956

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

A6-9500's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop CPUs.


Intel equivalent

According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to A6-9500 is Core 2 Quad Q8300, which is faster by 1% and higher by 8 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest Intel rivals to A6-9500:

Pentium G3220 100.85
Pentium G2120 100.85
A6-9500 100
Core i3-2100 99.15
Core i3-2105 98.31

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 A6-9500, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for A6-9500 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 1575 configurations using A6-9500 in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
0.6% (9/1575)
RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
0.1% (2/1575)
RTX 3090 GeForce RTX 3090
0.06% (1/1575)
RTX 3080 GeForce RTX 3080
0.06% (1/1575)
RTX 3070 Ti GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
0.06% (1/1575)
RTX 3070 GeForce RTX 3070
0.06% (1/1575)
GTX 1080 Ti GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
0.1% (2/1575)
RTX 3060 GeForce RTX 3060
0.4% (6/1575)
RX 5700 XT Radeon RX 5700 XT
0.1% (2/1575)

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