Athlon Silver 7120C vs Apple M4 Pro (14 cores)

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Primary details

Comparing M4 Pro (14 cores) and Athlon Silver 7120C processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking181not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processorLaptop
SeriesApple M4Mendocino (Zen 2, Ryzen 7020)
Power efficiency64.21no data
Architecture codenameno dataMendocino (Zen 2) (2022−2023)
Release date30 October 2024 (less than a year ago)20 September 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

M4 Pro (14 cores) 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 cores14 (Tetradeca-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads142
Base clock speedno data2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed4.5 GHz3.5 GHz
L1 cacheno data128 KB
L2 cacheno data1 MB
L3 cacheno data2 MB
Chip lithography3 nm6 nm
64 bit support++

Compatibility

Information on M4 Pro (14 cores) 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.

Power consumption (TDP)40 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by M4 Pro (14 cores) and Athlon Silver 7120C. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataXFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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Apple M4 20-core GPUAMD Radeon 610M ( - 1900 MHz)

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 October 2024 20 September 2022
Physical cores 14 2
Threads 14 2
Chip lithography 3 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 40 Watt 15 Watt

Apple M4 Pro (14 cores) has an age advantage of 2 years, 600% more physical cores and 600% more threads, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

Athlon Silver 7120C, on the other hand, has 166.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between M4 Pro (14 cores) and Athlon Silver 7120C. We've got no test results to judge.

Note that Apple M4 Pro (14 cores) is a desktop processor while Athlon Silver 7120C is a notebook one.


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