AMD FX-9800P socket: Socket FP4

What the FX-9800P is

The FX-9800P brings Bristol Ridge to FP4 for thin notebooks with DDR4. It launched on May 31, 2016 with a 2.7 GHz base and up to 3.6 GHz boost at 15 W. AMD targets office portables that need four cores with graphics in light chassis.

Two megabytes of L2 carry office work and browsing without L3. The modest base clock trims heat in fanless leaning designs. Four threads separate foreground tasks from background services.

Radeon R7 graphics with 8 compute units at 758 MHz drive notebook panels and external monitors. The process is 28 nm on a 250 mm2 die. The multiplier is locked. DDR4-1866 in two channels, with DDR3-1866 on some boards, feeds CPU and graphics.

Buyers choose the chip at order time with memory size and display tier. The 15 W rating suits 12 inch to 15 inch bodies with single fan cooling. A 90 C junction limit guides thermal design for summer rooms.

Socket and motherboard compatibility

The FX-9800P is soldered to the board on Socket FP4 and cannot be replaced. Upgrading means replacing the board or the whole notebook, so choose core count and memory at purchase. Boards pair the SoC with SODIMM slots for DDR4 and eDP for panels.

FP4 boards wire PCIe, SATA and USB per notebook design. AM4 desktop boards cannot take this BGA chip. The LGA, PGA and BGA: CPU package types explained guide explains soldered packages.

Single socket notebooks are the deployment. Growth means another FP4 notebook rather than a chip swap. Service follows the maker manual for fan cleaning and repasting.

Memory, PCIe and cooling

DDR4-1866 in two channels suits thin notebooks with SSDs. Matched pairs help R7 graphics during conferencing. Start with 8 GB for office use.

PCIe 3.0 with 8 lanes from the APU serves NVMe and board devices. Most builds rely on R7 and skip discrete graphics. Chipset class I/O adds extra storage and USB.

Cooling has no retail mount pattern because the chip is soldered. Vendors design heat pipes for 15 W with cTDP down to 12 W on some boards. Keep vents clear where notebooks run daily. ECC is not supported.

Upgrade paths

On the same socket, the AMD FX-9830P lifts to 3.0 GHz base at 35 W with faster graphics for larger notebooks. Stoney Ridge A6-9210 parts drop to two cores for entry Chromebooks where listed. Both share FP4 boards but differ in power class.

AM4 Bristol Ridge APUs with DDR4 move desktop fleets to socketed parts. They require new boards and DIMMs.

Past FP4 notebooks move to Ryzen mobile on FP5 or FP6. The FX-9800P covers thin 2016 notebooks where four cores with R7 must run at 15 W.