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Intel Core i7-6700 vs AMD A12-9800

Last updated: 2026-06-06

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-6700

Rank 2 - 61 %

AMD A12-9800

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-6700

Rank 2 - 44 %

AMD A12-9800

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

1,071 pts

4C / 4T · 4.20 GHz

655 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 3.70 GHz

4,921 pts

4C / 4T · 3.80 GHz

1,979 pts

Cinebench R20 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

406 cb

4C / 4T · 4.20 GHz

254 cb

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

4C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

983

4C / 4T · 4.20 GHz

607

Cinebench R20 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 3.70 GHz

1,774 cb

4C / 4T · 3.80 GHz

762 cb

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

4C / 8T · 3.70 GHz

3,801

4C / 4T · 3.80 GHz

1,827

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics 530

442

AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Bristol Ridge)

1,143

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

171 cb

4C / 4T · 4.20 GHz

100 cb

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 3.70 GHz

816 cb

4C / 4T · 3.80 GHz

326 cb

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 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

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 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

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-6700	AMD A12-9800
Family	Intel Core i7 (300)	AMD A (112)
CPU group	Intel Core i 6000 (24)	AMD A12-9800 (1)
Architecture	Skylake S	Excavator (Bristol Ridge)
Technology	14 nm	28 nm
Segment	Desktop	Desktop
Socket	LGA 1151	AM4 (PGA 1331)
Predecessor
Successor	Intel Core i7-7700

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i7-6700	AMD A12-9800
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 8	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	4x	4x Excavator
Frequency:	3.40 GHz	3.80 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	4.00 GHz	4.20 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	3.70 GHz
L2-Cache		2.00 MB
L3-Cache	8.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i7-6700	AMD A12-9800
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 530	AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Bristol Ridge)
GPU frequency	0.35 - 1.15 GHz	1.11 GHz
CUs / Shader	24 / 192	8 / 512
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	2
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB	2 GB
Technology	14 nm	28 nm
Release date	Q3/2015	Q2/2016

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-6700	AMD A12-9800
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i7-6700	AMD A12-9800
Memory	DDR4-2133 (34.1 GB/s)	DDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	64 GB	64 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 16	3.0 x 8
PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s	7.9 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i7-6700	AMD A12-9800
TDP	65 W	65 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		90 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i7-6700	AMD A12-9800
Chip design	Monolithic	Unknown
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, FMA4
Release date	Q3/2015	Q3/2017
Release price	350 $
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i7-6700 is 3.9 stars (82 ratings), while AMD A12-9800 has received 4.1 stars (12 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i7-6700
4C / 8T · 3.40 - 4.00 GHz

★★★★★

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

★★★★★