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AMD A8-6500 vs AMD A12-9800

Last updated: 2026-02-05

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 81 %

AMD A8-6500

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD A12-9800

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 71 %

AMD A8-6500

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD A12-9800

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 4.10 GHz

489

4C / 4T · 4.20 GHz

607

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 4.10 GHz

1,299

4C / 4T · 3.80 GHz

1,827

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

AMD Radeon HD 8570D

432

AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Bristol Ridge)

1,143

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 4.10 GHz

90 cb

4C / 4T · 4.20 GHz

100 cb

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 4.10 GHz

293 cb

4C / 4T · 3.80 GHz

326 cb

More benchmarks

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	AMD A8-6500	AMD A12-9800
Family	AMD A (112)	AMD A (112)
CPU group	AMD A8-6000 (4)	AMD A12-9800 (1)
Architecture	Richland (Piledriver)	Excavator (Bristol Ridge)
Technology	32 nm	28 nm
Segment	Desktop	Desktop
Socket	FM2	AM4 (PGA 1331)
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	AMD A8-6500	AMD A12-9800
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	4x	4x Excavator
Frequency:	3.50 GHz	3.80 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	4.10 GHz	4.20 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	4.10 GHz
L2-Cache		2.00 MB
L3-Cache	4.00 MB
Overclocking	✓	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	AMD A8-6500	AMD A12-9800
GPU name	AMD Radeon HD 8570D	AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Bristol Ridge)
GPU frequency	0.84 GHz	1.11 GHz
CUs / Shader	4 / 256	8 / 512
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	2
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB	2 GB
Technology	32 nm	28 nm
Release date	Q2/2013	Q2/2016

NPU AI performance

Wischen	AMD A8-6500	AMD A12-9800
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	AMD A8-6500	AMD A12-9800
Memory	DDR3-1866 (29.9 GB/s)	DDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory		64 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe		3.0 x 8
PCIe Bandwidth		7.9 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	AMD A8-6500	AMD A12-9800
TDP	65 W	65 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		90 °C

Technical details

Wischen	AMD A8-6500	AMD A12-9800
Chip design	Unknown	Unknown
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, FMA4
Release date	Q2/2013	Q3/2017
Release price	85 $
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User Reviews

Your rating

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Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

AMD A8-6500
4C / 4T · 3.50 - 4.10 GHz

★★★★★

AMD A12-9800
4C / 4T · 3.80 - 4.20 GHz

★★★★★