
AMD PRO A8-9600B

The AMD PRO A8-9600B is a mid-range APU of the Bristol Ridge series (7th generation of APUs) with 4 CPU-cores (two Excavator modules) clocked at 2.4 - 3.3 GHz. It is intended for business laptops and features the same specifications as the consumer AMD A10-9600P SoC.
It was announced in mid 2016 and is based on the same silicon as Carrizo but with more and refined features. It is a ULV-chip with a TDP of 15 Watt and integrates a Radeon R5 graphics card (384 shader cores / 6 compute cores) and a dual-channel DDR4-1866 memory controller. As Carrizo its a full featured SoC that offers all I/O ports on the chip.
The A10-9600P is slightly faster than the old 15-Watt top model of Carrizo, the FX-8800P. Therefore, the CPU performance is similar to a Broadwell 15 Watt Core i3 like The i3-5010U. See our Bristol Ridge article for more information on the architecture and improvements compared to Carrizo.
| Codename | Bristol Ridge | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Series | AMD Bristol Ridge | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Clock Rate | 2400 - 3300 MHz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Level 2 Cache | 2 MB | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number of Cores / Threads | 4 / 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power Consumption (TDP = Thermal Design Power) | 15 Watt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Transistor Count | 3100 Million | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manufacturing Technology | 28 nm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Die Size | 250 mm2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Max. Temperature | 90 °C | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Socket | FP4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Features | Dual-Channel DDR3/DDR4-1866 Memory Controller, PCIe 3.0 x8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| GPU | AMD Radeon R5 (Bristol Ridge) ( - 720 MHz) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 64 Bit | 64 Bit support | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Architecture | x86 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Announcement Date | 06/01/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Product Link (external) | products.amd.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Benchmarks
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Reviews for the AMD PRO A8-9600B processor
