AMD A10-9700 vs Intel Core i7-6700. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Desktop Desktop / Server
• Family
  AMD A Intel Core i7
• Generation
  7 6
• CPU group
  AMD A10-9700 Intel Core i 6000
• Successor
  -- Intel Core i7-7700

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  3.50 GHz 3.40 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.80 GHz 4.00 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 8
• Hyperthreading
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal normal

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  AMD Radeon R7 - 384 Intel HD Graphics 530
• GPU frequency
  1.05 GHz 0.35 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 1.15 GHz
• Execution units
  6 24
• Shader
  384 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 64 GB
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Generation
  6 9
• DirectX Version
  12 12
• Technology
  28 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2017 Q3/2015

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode
• h264
  Decode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode
• VP8
  No Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i7-6700 and AMD A10-9700. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2400
• Max. Memory
  64 GB 64 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 2

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD A10-9700 and Intel Core i7-6700 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  65 W 65 W
• TDP up
  No --
• TDP (PL2)
  No --
• TDP down
  45 W --
• Tjunction max.
  90 °C --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD A10-9700 and AMD A10-9700, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, FMA4 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L2-Cache
  2.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  No 8.00 MB
• Architecture
  Excavator Skylake S
• Technology
  28 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  AM4 LGA 1151
• Release date
  Q3/2017 Q3/2015