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Intel Core i7-6950X vs AMD A10-9700

Last updated: 2026-07-05

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 i7-6950X

Rank 2 - 56 %

AMD A10-9700

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-6950X

Rank 2 - 18 %

AMD A10-9700

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

10C / 20T · 3.50 GHz

1,091 pts

4C / 4T · 3.80 GHz

596 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

10C / 20T · 3.50 GHz

12,713 pts

4C / 4T · 3.50 GHz

1,844 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

10C / 20T · 3.50 GHz

1,237

4C / 4T · 3.80 GHz

705

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

10C / 20T · 3.50 GHz

7,421

4C / 4T · 3.50 GHz

1,744

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

10C / 20T · 3.50 GHz

974

4C / 4T · 3.80 GHz

556

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

10C / 20T · 3.50 GHz

8,993

4C / 4T · 3.50 GHz

1,745

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

10C / 20T · 3.00 GHz

5,950

4C / 4T · 3.50 GHz

762

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Single-core performance

10C / 20T · 3.50 GHz

152 cb

4C / 4T · 3.80 GHz

92 cb

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Multi-core performance

10C / 20T · 3.50 GHz

1,819 cb

4C / 4T · 3.50 GHz

303 cb

More benchmarks

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

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 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	Intel Core i7-6950X	AMD A10-9700
Family	Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition (24)	AMD A (112)
CPU group	Intel Core i 6000X (1)	AMD A10-9700 (1)
Architecture	Broadwell E	Excavator (Bristol Ridge)
Technology	14 nm	28 nm
Segment	Desktop	Desktop
Socket	LGA 2011-3	AM4 (PGA 1331)
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i7-6950X	AMD A10-9700
CPU Cores / Threads	10 / 20	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	10x	4x Excavator
Frequency:	3.00 GHz	3.50 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	3.50 GHz	3.80 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	3.50 GHz
L2-Cache		2.00 MB
L3-Cache	25.00 MB
Overclocking	✓	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i7-6950X	AMD A10-9700
GPU name	no iGPU	AMD Radeon R7 - 384 (Bristol Ridge)
GPU frequency		1.03 GHz
CUs / Shader	/	6 / 384
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays		2
Max. GPU Memory		2 GB
Technology		28 nm
Release date		Q3/2017

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-6950X	AMD A10-9700
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i7-6950X	AMD A10-9700
Memory	DDR4-2400 (76.8 GB/s)	DDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	128 GB	64 GB
Memory channels	4	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 40	3.0 x 8
PCIe Bandwidth	39.4 GB/s	7.9 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i7-6950X	AMD A10-9700
TDP	140 W	65 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down		45 W
T. junction max.		90 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i7-6950X	AMD A10-9700
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	Q2/2016	Q3/2017
Release price
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i7-6950X is 4.9 stars (17 ratings), while AMD A10-9700 has received 2.9 stars (21 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i7-6950X
10C / 20T · 3.00 - 3.50 GHz

★★★★★

AMD A10-9700
4C / 4T · 3.50 - 3.80 GHz

★★★★★