Intel Core i7-9700F vs AMD PRO A10-8850B

Comparative analysis of Intel Core i7-9700F and AMD PRO A10-8850B processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Compatibility, Peripherals, Security & Reliability, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization, Graphics, Graphics interfaces, Graphics API support. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Physics Score, Geekbench 4 - Single Core, Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Core i7-9700F

  • 4 more cores, run more applications at once: 8 vs 4
  • 4 more threads: 8 vs 4
  • Around 15% higher clock speed: 4.70 GHz vs 4.1 GHz
  • Around 38% higher maximum core temperature: 100 °C vs 72.40°C
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 46% lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 95 Watt
  • Around 71% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 2758 vs 1611
  • 3.5x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 13262 vs 3752
Specifications (specs)
Number of cores 8 vs 4
Number of threads 8 vs 4
Maximum frequency 4.70 GHz vs 4.1 GHz
Maximum core temperature 100 °C vs 72.40°C
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 Watt vs 95 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 2758 vs 1611
PassMark - CPU mark 13262 vs 3752

Reasons to consider the AMD PRO A10-8850B

  • 2x more L2 cache, more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later
L2 cache 4 MB vs 2 MB

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: Intel Core i7-9700F
CPU 2: AMD PRO A10-8850B

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
2758
1611
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
13262
3752
Name Intel Core i7-9700F AMD PRO A10-8850B
PassMark - Single thread mark 2758 1611
PassMark - CPU mark 13262 3752
3DMark Fire Strike - Physics Score 5225
Geekbench 4 - Single Core 1207
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core 6657
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 17.822
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 221.907
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.36
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 25.964
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 94.575

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Core i7-9700F AMD PRO A10-8850B

Essentials

Architecture codename Coffee Lake
Launch date 23 April 2019
Launch price (MSRP) $323, $335
Place in performance rating 1081 813
Processor Number i7-9700F
Vertical segment Desktop Desktop
Family AMD PRO A-Series Processors
OPN Tray AD885BXBI44JC
OS Support Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition, Windows 7 - 64-Bit Edition, RHEL x86 64-Bit, Ubuntu x86 64-Bit
Series AMD PRO A-Series A10 APU for Desktops

Performance

64 bit support
Base frequency 3.00 GHz 3.9 GHz
Bus Speed 8 GT/s DMI3
L1 cache 512 KB
L2 cache 2 MB 4 MB
L3 cache 12 MB
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Maximum core temperature 100 °C 72.40°C
Maximum frequency 4.70 GHz 4.1 GHz
Number of cores 8 4
Number of threads 8 4
Compute Cores 12
Number of GPU cores 8
Unlocked

Memory

ECC memory support
Max memory channels 2 2
Maximum memory bandwidth 41.6 GB/s
Maximum memory size 128 GB
Supported memory types DDR4-2666
Supported memory frequency 2133 MHz

Compatibility

Max number of CPUs in a configuration 1
Sockets supported FCLGA1151 FM2+
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 Watt 95 Watt
Thermal Solution PCG 2015C (65W)

Peripherals

Max number of PCIe lanes 16
PCI Express revision 3.0
PCIe configurations 1x16, 2x8, 1x8+2x4
Scalability 1S Only

Security & Reliability

Execute Disable Bit (EDB)
Intel® Identity Protection technology
Intel® Memory Protection Extensions (Intel® MPX)
Intel® OS Guard
Intel® Secure Key technology
Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX)
Intel® Trusted Execution technology (TXT)

Advanced Technologies

Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® technology
Idle States
Instruction set extensions Intel SSE4.1, Intel SSE4.2, Intel AVX2
Intel 64
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2)
Intel® AES New Instructions
Intel® Hyper-Threading technology
Intel® Optane™ Memory Supported
Intel® Stable Image Platform Program (SIPP)
Intel® TSX-NI
Intel® Turbo Boost technology
Intel® vPro™ Platform Eligibility
Thermal Monitoring
AMD App Acceleration
AMD Elite Experiences
AMD HD3D technology
AMD Mantle API
DualGraphics
Enhanced Virus Protection (EVP)
FreeSync
Fused Multiply-Add 4 (FMA4)
Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA)
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
Out-of-band client management
PowerGating
PowerNow
PowerTune
RAID
System Image Stability
TrueAudio

Virtualization

Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x)
Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d)
Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT)
AMD Virtualization (AMD-V™)
IOMMU 2.0

Graphics

Enduro
Graphics max frequency 800 MHz
iGPU core count 512
Processor graphics AMD Radeon R7 Graphics
Switchable graphics
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Codec Engine (VCE)

Graphics interfaces

DisplayPort
HDMI

Graphics API support

DirectX 12
Vulkan