The AMD A6-9550 is a desktop processor with 2 cores, launched in July 2017. It is part of the A6 lineup, using the Bristol Ridge architecture with Socket AM4. A6-9550 has 1 MB of L2 cache and operates at 3.8 GHz by default, but can boost up to 4 GHz, depending on the workload. AMD is making the A6-9550 on a 28 nm production node using 3,100 million transistors. The silicon die of the chip is not fabricated at AMD, but at the foundry of GlobalFoundries. The multiplier is locked on A6-9550, which limits its overclocking potential.
With a TDP of 65 W, the A6-9550 consumes typical power levels for a modern PC. AMD's processor supports DDR4 memory with a dual-channel interface. The highest officially supported memory speed is 2400 MT/s, but with overclocking (and the right memory modules) you can go even higher. For communication with other components in the machine, A6-9550 uses a PCI-Express Gen 3 connection. This processor features the Radeon R5 integrated graphics solution.
Hardware virtualization is available on the A6-9550, which greatly improves virtual machine performance. Programs using Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) can run on this processor, boosting performance for calculation-heavy applications. Besides AVX, AMD is including the newer AVX2 standard, too, but not AVX-512.