AMD A12-9700P vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600HS

Last updated: 2024-02-15

CPU comparison with benchmarks


AMD A12-9700P		AMD Ryzen 5 5600HS
CPU comparison AMD A12-9700P or AMD Ryzen 5 5600HS - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results. The AMD A12-9700P has 4 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.40 GHz. Up to 64 GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The AMD A12-9700P was released in Q4/2016. The AMD Ryzen 5 5600HS has 6 cores with 12 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 4.20 GHz. The CPU supports up to 64 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The AMD Ryzen 5 5600HS was released in Q2/2021.

AMD A (112)	Family	AMD Ryzen 5 (85)
AMD A12-9700 (2)	CPU group	AMD Ryzen 5000H (11)
6	Generation	4
Excavator (Bristol Ridge)	Architecture	Cezanne (Zen 3)
Mobile	Segment	Mobile
--	Predecessor	AMD Ryzen 5 4600HS
--	Successor	AMD Ryzen 5 6600HS

CPU Cores and Base Frequency The AMD A12-9700P is a 4 core processor with a clock frequency of 2.50 GHz (3.40 GHz). The AMD Ryzen 5 5600HS has 6 CPU cores with a clock frequency of 3.00 GHz (4.20 GHz).
AMD A12-9700P	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen 5 5600HS
4	Cores	6
4	Threads	12
normal	Core architecture	normal
No	Hyperthreading	Yes
No	Overclocking ?	No
2.50 GHz	Frequency	3.00 GHz
3.40 GHz	Turbo Frequency (1 Core)	4.20 GHz
2.70 GHz	Turbo Frequency (All Cores)	3.50 GHz

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.
AMD A12-9700P	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen 5 5600HS
--	AI hardware	--
--	AI specifications	--

Internal Graphics The integrated graphics unit of a processor is not only responsible for the pure image output on the system, but can also significantly increase the efficiency of the system with the support of modern video codecs.
AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Bristol Ridge)	GPU	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 (Renoir)
0.76 GHz	GPU frequency	0.40 GHz
--	GPU (Turbo)	1.80 GHz
6	GPU Generation	9
28 nm	Technology	7 nm
2	Max. displays	3
8	Compute units	7
512	Shader	448
No	Hardware Raytracing	No
No	Frame Generation	No
2 GB	Max. GPU Memory	2 GB
12	DirectX Version	12

Hardware codec support A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.
AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Bristol Ridge)	GPU	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 (Renoir)
No	Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	Decode / Encode
No	Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	Decode / Encode
Decode	Codec h264	Decode / Encode
No	Codec VP9	Decode / Encode
No	Codec VP8	Decode / Encode
No	Codec AV1	No
Decode	Codec AVC	Decode / Encode
Decode	Codec VC-1	Decode
Decode / Encode	Codec JPEG	Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe The AMD A12-9700P supports a maximum of 64 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The AMD Ryzen 5 5600HS can connect up to 64 GB of memory in 2 memory channels.
AMD A12-9700P	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen 5 5600HS
DDR4-1866	Memory	LPDDR4-4266, DDR4-3200
64 GB	Max. Memory	64 GB
2 (Dual Channel)	Memory channels	2 (Dual Channel)
29.9 GB/s	Max. Bandwidth	51.2 GB/s
No	ECC	No
2.00 MB	L2 Cache	4.00 MB
--	L3 Cache	16.00 MB
3.0	PCIe version	3.0
8	PCIe lanes	12
7.9 GB/s	PCIe Bandwidth	11.8 GB/s
Thermal Management The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of a processor specifies the required cooling solution. The AMD A12-9700P has a TDP of 15 W, that of the AMD Ryzen 5 5600HS is 35 W.
AMD A12-9700P	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen 5 5600HS
15 W	TDP (PL1 / PBP)	35 W
--	TDP (PL2)	--
--	TDP up	54 W
--	TDP down	--
90 °C	Tjunction max.	105 °C
Technical details The AMD A12-9700P has a 2.00 MB cache, while the AMD Ryzen 5 5600HS cache has a total of 20.00 MB.
AMD A12-9700P	Characteristic	AMD Ryzen 5 5600HS
28 nm	Technology	7 nm
Unknown	Chip design	Chiplet
x86-64 (64 bit)	Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)
SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, FMA4	ISA extensions	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
FP4	Socket	FP6
AMD-V	Virtualization	AMD-V, SVM
Yes	AES-NI	Yes
	Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Q4/2016	Release date	Q2/2021
--	Release price	--

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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks

AMD A12-9700P (35%)

AMD Ryzen 5 5600HS (100%)

⌀ Multi core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks

AMD A12-9700P (21%)

AMD Ryzen 5 5600HS (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	AMD A12-9700P 4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	481 (35%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 5600HS 6C 12T @ 4.20 GHz	1370 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	AMD A12-9700P 4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	1239 (21%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 5600HS 6C 12T @ 3.50 GHz	5855 (100%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.


	AMD A12-9700P AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Bristol Ridge) @ 0.76 GHz	782 (49%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 5600HS AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 (Renoir) @ 1.80 GHz	1612 (100%)

Cinebench 2024 (Single-Core)

The Cinebench 2024 benchmark is based on the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxon's 3D program Cinema 4D. The benchmark runs are each 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.


	AMD A12-9700P 4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 5600HS 6C 12T @ 4.20 GHz	78 (100%)

Cinebench 2024 (Multi-Core)

The Multi-Core test of the Cinebench 2024 benchmark uses all cpu cores to render using the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxons Cinema 4D. The benchmark run is 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.


	AMD A12-9700P 4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 5600HS 6C 12T @ 4.20 GHz	559 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	AMD A12-9700P 4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 5600HS 6C 12T @ 4.20 GHz	1342 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	AMD A12-9700P 4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 5600HS 6C 12T @ 3.50 GHz	9439 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.


	AMD A12-9700P 4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 5600HS 6C 12T @ 4.20 GHz	1762 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.


	AMD A12-9700P 4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 5600HS 6C 12T @ 3.50 GHz	6210 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	AMD A12-9700P 4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 5600HS 6C 12T @ 4.20 GHz	517 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	AMD A12-9700P 4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 5600HS 6C 12T @ 3.50 GHz	3544 (100%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.


	AMD A12-9700P 4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	0 (0%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 5600HS 6C 12T @ 3.50 GHz	16964 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	AMD A12-9700P 4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	72 (100%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 5600HS 6C 12T @ 4.20 GHz	0 (0%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	AMD A12-9700P 4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	223 (100%)
	AMD Ryzen 5 5600HS 6C 12T @ 3.50 GHz	0 (0%)

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