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AMD A12-9700P vs Intel Core i7-960
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Benchmarks
Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks
Single-core performance
Multi-core performance
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance
AMD A12-9700P
84 %
4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz
Intel Core i7-960
100 %
4C / 8T · 3.46 GHz
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance
AMD A12-9700P
52 %
4C / 4T · 2.70 GHz
Intel Core i7-960
100 %
4C / 8T · 3.20 GHz
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Specifications
At a glance
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Wischen
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AMD A12-9700P | Intel Core i7-960 |
|---|---|---|
| Family | AMD A (112) | Intel Core i7 (300) |
| CPU group | AMD A12-9700 (2) | Intel Core i7 900 (7) |
| Architecture | Excavator (Bristol Ridge) | Bloomfield |
| Technology | 28 nm | 45 nm |
| Segment | Notebook | Desktop |
| Socket | FP4 | LGA 1366 |
| Predecessor | ||
| Successor |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
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AMD A12-9700P | Intel Core i7-960 |
|---|---|---|
| CPU Cores / Threads | 4 / 4 | 4 / 8 |
| Hyperthreading / SMT | ✗ | ✓ |
| Core architecture | normal | normal |
| Cores: | 4x Excavator | 4x |
| Frequency: | 2.50 GHz | 3.20 GHz |
| Turbo (1 Core): | 3.40 GHz | 3.46 GHz |
| Turbo (All Cores): | 2.70 GHz | |
| L2-Cache | 2.00 MB | 1.00 MB |
| L3-Cache | 8.00 MB | |
| Overclocking | ✗ | ✗ |
Integrated graphics (iGPU)
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AMD A12-9700P | Intel Core i7-960 |
|---|---|---|
| GPU name | AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Bristol Ridge) | no iGPU |
| GPU frequency | 0.76 GHz | |
| CUs / Shader | 8 / 512 | / |
| Raytracing | ✗ | ✗ |
| Max. displays | 2 | |
| Max. GPU Memory | 2 GB | |
| Technology | 28 nm | |
| Release date | Q2/2016 |
NPU AI performance
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AMD A12-9700P | Intel Core i7-960 |
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| AI hardware | ||
| AI specifications | ||
| NPU + CPU + iGPU |
Memory & PCIe
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Wischen
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AMD A12-9700P | Intel Core i7-960 |
|---|---|---|
| Memory | DDR4-1866 (29.9 GB/s) | DDR3-1066 (25.6 GB/s) |
| Max. Memory | 64 GB | 24 GB |
| Memory channels | 2 | 3 |
| ECC | No | No |
| PCIe | 3.0 x 8 | |
| PCIe Bandwidth | 7.9 GB/s |
Thermal Management
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AMD A12-9700P | Intel Core i7-960 |
|---|---|---|
| TDP | 15 W | 130 W |
| TDP (PL2) | ||
| TDP up | ||
| TDP down | ||
| T. junction max. | 90 °C |
Technical details
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Wischen
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AMD A12-9700P | Intel Core i7-960 |
|---|---|---|
| Chip design | Unknown | Monolithic |
| AES-NI | ✓ | ✗ |
| Operating systems | Windows 10, Linux | |
| Instruction set | x86-64 (64 bit) | x86-64 (64 bit) |
| ISA extensions | SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, FMA4 | SSE4.1, SSE4.2 |
| Release date | Q4/2016 | Q4/2009 |
| Release price | 305 $ | |
| Documents | Technical data sheet |
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Your rating
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