Athlon Silver 7120C vs A8-4500M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking2433not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD A-SeriesMendocino (Zen 2, Ryzen 7020)
Power efficiency2.87no data
Architecture codenameTrinity (2012−2013)Mendocino (Zen 2) (2022−2023)
Release date15 May 2012 (12 years ago)20 September 2022 (2 years ago)

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 cores4 (Quad-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads42
Base clock speed1.9 GHz2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed2.8 GHz3.5 GHz
L1 cache192 KB128 KB
L2 cache4 MB (shared)1 MB
L3 cache0 KB2 MB
Chip lithography32 nm6 nm
Die size246 mm2no data
Number of transistors1,178 millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-no data

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 configuration1no data
SocketFS1r2no data
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt15 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 extensions86x SSE (1, 2, 3, 3S, 4.1, 4.2, 4A),-64, AES, AVX, FMAXFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT
AES-NI+-
FMA+-
AVX+-

Virtualization technologies

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

AMD-V+-

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 typesunknownno data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon HD 7640G (496 - 685 MHz)AMD Radeon 610M ( - 1900 MHz)

Pros & cons summary


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

A8-4500M has 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads.

Athlon Silver 7120C, on the other hand, has 139.5% faster integrated GPU, an age advantage of 10 years, a 433.3% more advanced lithography process, and 133.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between A8-4500M and Athlon Silver 7120C. We've got no test results to judge.


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