Athlon Silver 3050e vs A4-9120

Place in the ranking	2601	1955
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	Bristol Ridge	AMD Raven Ridge (Ryzen 2000 APU)
Architecture codename	Stoney Ridge (2016−2019)	Dali (Zen) (2020)
Release date	1 June 2017 (7 years ago)	1 June 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

A4-9120 and Athlon Silver 3050e basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores	2 (Dual-core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	2	4
Base clock speed	2.2 GHz	1.4 GHz
Boost clock speed	2.5 GHz	2.8 GHz
L1 cache	160 KB	192 KB
L2 cache	1 MB	1 MB
L3 cache	no data	4 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	14 nm
Die size	124.5 mm²	no data
Maximum core temperature	90 °C	no data
Number of transistors	1200 Million	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	+

Compatibility

Information on A4-9120 and Athlon Silver 3050e compatibility with other computer components: 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	FP5
Power consumption (TDP)	10-15 Watt	6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by A4-9120 and Athlon Silver 3050e. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	Virtualization,	MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME
AES-NI	-	+
FMA	-	+
AVX	-	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by A4-9120 and Athlon Silver 3050e are enumerated here.

AMD-V

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by A4-9120 and Athlon Silver 3050e. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

DDR4

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon R2 (Stoney Ridge)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 3

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score 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.

A4-9120 0.79

Athlon Silver 3050e 1.91
+142%

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.

A4-9120 1224

Athlon Silver 3050e 2952
+141%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.79	1.91
Integrated graphics card	1.03	2.98
Recency	1 June 2017	1 June 2020
Threads	2	4
Chip lithography	28 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	10 Watt	6 Watt

Athlon Silver 3050e has a 141.8% higher aggregate performance score, 189.3% faster integrated GPU, an age advantage of 3 years, 100% more threads, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 66.7% lower power consumption.

The Athlon Silver 3050e is our recommended choice as it beats the A4-9120 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions on choice between A4-9120 and Athlon Silver 3050e, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.