A4-9120: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
A4-9120 provides poor benchmark performance at 0.77% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.
Summary
AMD started A4-9120 sales 1 June 2017. This is a Stoney Ridge architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 2 cores and 2 threads, and is based on 28 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 2500 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is BGA processor with a TDP of 15 Watt. It supports DDR4 memory.
Primary details
A4-9120 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | 2654 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Series | Bristol Ridge | |
| Power efficiency | 4.86 | of 100.00 (Core Ultra 7 164U) |
| Architecture codename | Stoney Ridge (2016−2019) | |
| Release date | 1 June 2017 (7 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
| Physical cores | 2 (Dual-core) | |
| Threads | 2 | |
| Base clock speed | 2.2 GHz | of 4.7 GHz (Ryzen 9 7900X) |
| Boost clock speed | 2.5 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| L1 cache | 160 KB | of 80 KB (EPYC 9965) |
| L2 cache | 1 MB | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
| Chip lithography | 28 nm | of 3 nm (Core Ultra 9 285K) |
| Die size | 124.5 mm2 | |
| Maximum core temperature | 90 °C | of 110 °C (Core Ultra 9 185H) |
| Number of transistors | 1200 Million | of 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - |
Compatibility
Information on A4-9120 compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.
| Socket | BGA | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | of 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by A4-9120. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | Virtualization, |
Virtualization technologies
Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.
| AMD-V | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by A4-9120's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR4 |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into A4-9120.
| Integrated graphics card | AMD Radeon R2 (Stoney Ridge) ( - 655 MHz) |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of A4-9120. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.
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Intel equivalent
According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to A4-9120 is Core i3-2330M, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 11 positions in our ranking.
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Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for A4-9120, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for A4-9120 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 6274 configurations using A4-9120 in our database.
