Athlon Silver 7120C vs A8-4500M

Primary details

Comparing A8-4500M and Athlon Silver 7120C processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance ranking	2316	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	AMD A-Series	Mendocino (Zen 2, Ryzen 7020)
Architecture codename	Trinity (2012−2013)	Mendocino (Zen 2)
Release date	15 May 2012 (12 years ago)	20 September 2022 (1 year ago)
Current price	$179	no data

Detailed specifications

A8-4500M and Athlon Silver 7120C 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	4 (Quad-Core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	4	2
Base clock speed	1.9 GHz	2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed	2.8 GHz	3.5 GHz
L1 cache	192 KB	128 KB
L2 cache	4 MB (shared)	1 MB
L3 cache	0 KB	2 MB
Chip lithography	32 nm	6 nm
Die size	246 mm2	no data
Number of transistors	1,178 million	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	no data
Unlocked multiplier	No	No

Compatibility

Information on A8-4500M and Athlon Silver 7120C 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.

Number of CPUs in a configuration	1	no data
Socket	FS1r2	no data
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by A8-4500M and Athlon Silver 7120C. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	86x SSE (1, 2, 3, 3S, 4.1, 4.2, 4A),-64, AES, AVX, FMA	XFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT
AES-NI	+	no data
FMA	+	no data
AVX	+	no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by A8-4500M and Athlon Silver 7120C are enumerated here.

AMD-V

+

no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by A8-4500M and Athlon Silver 7120C. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

unknown

no data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card Compare

AMD Radeon HD 7640G

AMD Radeon 610M

Pros & cons summary

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Integrated graphics card	1.19	2.85
Recency	15 May 2012	20 September 2022
Physical cores	4	2
Threads	4	2
Chip lithography	32 nm	6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	15 Watt

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