AMD A12-9800 Benchmark, Test and specs
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The AMD A12-9800 has 4 cores with 4 threads and is based on the 7. gen of the AMD A series. The processor uses a mainboard with the AM4 (PGA 1331) socket and was released in Q3/2017. The AMD A12-9800 scores 607 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 1,827 points.
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| Name: | AMD A12-9800 |
| Family: | AMD A |
| CPU group: | AMD A12-9800 |
| Segment: | Desktop / Server |
| Generation: | 7 |
| Predecessor: | -- |
| Successor: | -- |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
The AMD A12-9800 has 4 CPU cores and can calculate 4 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the AMD A12-9800 is 3.80 GHz (4.20 GHz). The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.
| CPU Cores / Threads: | 4 / 4 |
| Core architecture: | normal |
| Cores: | 4x Excavator |
| Hyperthreading / SMT: | No |
| Overclocking: | No |
| Frequency: | 3.80 GHz |
| Turbo Frequency (1 Core): | 4.20 GHz |
| Turbo Frequency (4 Cores): | -- |
Internal Graphics
The AMD A12-9800 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the AMD A12-9800 uses the AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Bristol Ridge), which has 512 texture shaders and 8 execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.
| GPU name: | AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Bristol Ridge) |
| GPU frequency: | 1.11 GHz |
| GPU (Turbo): | No turbo |
| Execution units: | 8 |
| Shader: | 512 |
| Max. GPU Memory: | 2 GB |
| Max. displays: | 2 |
| Generation: | 6 |
| Direct X: | 12 |
| Technology: | 28 nm |
| Release date: | Q2/2016 |
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.
| h265 / HEVC (8 bit): | No |
| h265 / HEVC (10 bit): | No |
| h264: | Decode |
| VP8: | No |
| VP9: | No |
| AV1: | No |
| AVC: | Decode |
| VC-1: | Decode |
| JPEG: | Decode / Encode |
Memory & PCIeThe processor can use up to 64 GB memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 38.4 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system. |
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| Memory type: | DDR4-2400 |
| Max. Memory: | 64 GB |
| Memory channels: | 2 (Dual Channel) |
| Bandwidth: | 38.4 GB/s |
| ECC: | No |
| PCIe: | 3.0 x 8 |
| AES-NI: | Yes |
Thermal ManagementThe thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 65 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually gives a rough idea of the actual power consumption of the CPU. |
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| TDP (PL1 / PBP): | 65 W |
| TDP (PL2): | -- |
| TDP up: | -- |
| TDP down: | -- |
| Tjunction max.: | 90 °C |
Technical details
The AMD A12-9800 is made in 28 nm. The smaller the manufacturing process of a CPU, the more modern and energy-efficient it is. Overall, the processor has 2.00 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.
| Technology: | 28 nm |
| Chip design: | |
| Socket: | AM4 (PGA 1331) |
| L2-Cache: | 2.00 MB |
| L3-Cache: | -- |
| Architecture: | Excavator (Bristol Ridge) |
| Operating systems: | Windows 10, Linux |
| Virtualization: | AMD-V |
| Instruction set (ISA): | x86-64 (64 bit) |
| ISA extensions: | SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, FMA4 |
| Release date: | Q3/2017 |
| Release price: | -- |
| Part Number: | AD9800AUABBOX |
| Documents: | -- |
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Benchmark results
The benchmark results for the AMD A12-9800 have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.
Screenshots:
Screenshots:
- Cinebench R23 on ASRock A320M-DVS (16 GB DDR4-2133), Windows 10 Pro
- Cinebench R20 on ASRock A320M-DVS (16 GB DDR4-2133), Windows 10 Pro
- Cinebench R15 on ASRock A320M-DVS (16 GB DDR4-2133), Windows 10 Pro
- Geekbench 5.4.4 on ASRock A320M-DVS (16 GB DDR4-2133), Windows 10 Pro
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.
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Intel Core i5-4210M
2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-5250U
2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-4590T
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz |
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AMD A12-9800
4C 4T @ 4.20 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3
14C 28T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2
12C 24T @ 3.50 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-3635QM
4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz |
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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.
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Intel Celeron N5105
4C 4T @ 2.60 GHz |
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Intel Celeron G3900
2C 2T @ 2.80 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-2400
4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz |
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AMD A12-9800
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz |
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AMD Phenom II X4 955
4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-2400S
4C 4T @ 2.50 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-7200U
2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz |
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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.
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Intel Pentium G4560
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4
8C 16T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5-2697 v4
18C 36T @ 3.60 GHz |
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AMD A12-9800
4C 4T @ 4.20 GHz |
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Intel Celeron N5105
4C 4T @ 2.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-3220
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-2400
4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz |
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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.|
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Intel Core i5-7300U
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz |
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AMD FX-8100
8C 8T @ 3.70 GHz |
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Intel Pentium Silver N6000
4C 4T @ 2.50 GHz |
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AMD A12-9800
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz |
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AMD Athlon 200GE
2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 3 3250U
2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 3 3200U
2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz |
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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.
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AMD EPYC 7551P
32C 64T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-3437U
2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz |
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Intel Xeon D-1537
8C 16T @ 2.30 GHz |
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AMD A12-9800
4C 4T @ 4.20 GHz |
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Intel Atom C5315
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-975
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz |
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Intel Xeon D-1539
8C 16T @ 2.20 GHz |
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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.|
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AMD Athlon X4 845
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz |
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Samsung Exynos 880
8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-860S
4C 8T @ 2.53 GHz |
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AMD A12-9800
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-7500U
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-5557U
2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz |
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AMD Athlon Gold 3150C
2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz |
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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.
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AMD Ryzen 5 4600U
AMD Radeon 6 Graphics (Renoir) @ 1.50 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS
AMD Radeon 660M (6 EUs) @ 1.90 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 7535U
AMD Radeon 660M (6 EUs) @ 1.90 GHz |
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AMD A12-9800
AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Bristol Ridge) @ 1.11 GHz |
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Samsung Exynos 990
ARM Mali-G77 MP11 @ 0.80 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 2200G
AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics @ 1.10 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen Embedded V1404I
AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics @ 1.10 GHz |
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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.|
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Intel Celeron G1820
2C 2T @ 2.70 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-5157U
2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz |
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Intel Pentium G2020
2C 2T @ 2.90 GHz |
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AMD A12-9800
4C 4T @ 4.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-760
4C 4T @ 3.33 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-3437U
2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-3240T
2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz |
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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.|
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Intel Core i3-7100H
2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-5257U
2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz |
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Intel Pentium G4600T
2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz |
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AMD A12-9800
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E5450
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-1000NG4
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i3-8130U
2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz |
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Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (SC)
503 entries
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Cinebench R23 (MC)
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Cinebench R20 (SC)
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Cinebench R20 (MC)
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Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,357 entries
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Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,330 entries
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FP32 SP iGPU
1,871 entries
1,871 entries
Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,098 entries
1,098 entries
Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,093 entries
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