PRO A12-8870E: specs and benchmarks

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PRO A12-8870E
2016
4 cores / 4 threads, 35 Watt
1.94

PRO A12-8870E provides poor benchmark performance at 1.94% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

AMD started PRO A12-8870E sales on October 2016. This is a Carrizo architecture desktop 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 3800 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket AM4 processor with a TDP of 35 Watt. It supports DDR4-2400 memory.

Primary details

PRO A12-8870E processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking1960
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processor
Power efficiency5.15of 100.00 (Core Ultra 7 164U)
Architecture codenameCarrizo (2015−2018)
Release dateOctober 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 speed2.9 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed3.8 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
Number of transistors3,100 millionof 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X)
64 bit support+

Compatibility

Information on PRO A12-8870E 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)35 Wattof 3100 ‑ 4500 (Ryzen 7 7435H)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by PRO A12-8870E. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

AES-NI+
FMA+
AVX+
FRTC+
FreeSync+

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 PRO A12-8870E'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 PRO A12-8870E.

Integrated graphics cardAMD Radeon R7 Graphics
iGPU core count8
Enduron/a
Switchable graphics+

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of PRO A12-8870E's integrated GPU.

DisplayPortn/a

Graphics API support

APIs supported by PRO A12-8870E'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)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of PRO A12-8870E. 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.

PRO A12-8870E 1.94

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.

PRO A12-8870E 3023

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

PRO A12-8870E's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop CPUs.


PRO A10-8770E 100.52
FX-4170 100.52
A10-5800B 100.52
PRO A12-8870E 100
A8-6600K 99.48

Intel equivalent

According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to PRO A12-8870E is Core i5-3470T, which is slower by 1% and lower by 5 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest Intel rivals to PRO A12-8870E:

PRO A12-8870E 100
Core i7-860 98.97

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 PRO A12-8870E, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for PRO A12-8870E in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 17 configurations using PRO A12-8870E in our database.

RX 570 Radeon RX 570
5.9% (1/17)
R7 240 Radeon R7 240
11.8% (2/17)
GT 610 GeForce GT 610
5.9% (1/17)

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