5 120HL vs Athlon Gold 3150U

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Primary details

Comparing Athlon Gold 3150U and Core 5 120HL processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance ranking1706not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopDesktop processor
SeriesAMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)no data
Architecture codenameDali (Zen) (2020)Raptor Lake-PS (2024)
Release date6 January 2020 (4 years ago)8 April 2024 (less than a year ago)

Detailed specifications

Athlon Gold 3150U and Core 5 120HL 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 cores2 (Dual-core)12 (Dodeca-Core)
Threads416
Base clock speed2.4 GHz2.6 GHz
Boost clock speed3.3 GHz4.7 GHz
Multiplier24no data
L1 cache192 KB80 KB (per core)
L2 cache1 MB2 MB (per core)
L3 cache4 MB18 MB (shared)
Chip lithography14 nm10 nm
Maximum core temperature95 °Cno data
Number of transistors4500 Millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility+no data

Compatibility

Information on Athlon Gold 3150U and Core 5 120HL 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 configurationno data1
SocketFP51700
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt45 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon Gold 3150U and Core 5 120HL. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsMMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SMEno data
AES-NI++
FMA+-
AVX++
vProno data+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
TSX-+
Precision Boost 2+no data

Security technologies

Athlon Gold 3150U and Core 5 120HL technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon Gold 3150U and Core 5 120HL are enumerated here.

AMD-V+-
VT-dno data+
VT-xno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon Gold 3150U and Core 5 120HL. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4DDR4, DDR5
Maximum memory size32 GBno data
Max memory channels2no data
Maximum memory bandwidth38.397 GB/sno data
ECC memory support+-

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

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Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon Gold 3150U and Core 5 120HL.

PCIe version3.04.0
PCI Express lanes128

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 January 2020 8 April 2024
Physical cores 2 12
Threads 4 16
Chip lithography 14 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 45 Watt

Athlon Gold 3150U has 200% lower power consumption.

5 120HL, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, 500% more physical cores and 300% more threads, and a 40% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Athlon Gold 3150U and Core 5 120HL. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Athlon Gold 3150U is a notebook processor while Core 5 120HL is a desktop one.


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