A4-9120C vs Athlon II N370

Place in performance ranking	2666	2707
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	AMD Athlon II	AMD Bristol Ridge
Architecture codename	Champlain (2010−2011)	Stoney Ridge (2016−2019)
Release date	16 December 2010 (13 years ago)	6 January 2019 (5 years ago)
Current price	no data	$290

Technical specs

Athlon II N370 and A4-9120C 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	2
Base clock speed	no data	1.6 GHz
Boost clock speed	2.5 GHz	2.4 GHz
Bus support	3200 MHz	no data
L1 cache	256 KB	160 KB
L2 cache	1 MB	1 MB
Chip lithography	45 nm	28 nm
Die size	117.5 mm²	124.5 mm²
Number of transistors	234 Million	1200 Million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-
Unlocked multiplier	No	No

Compatibility

Information on Athlon II N370 and A4-9120C 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	S1	BGA
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon II N370 and A4-9120C. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	DDR3-1066 memory controller, MMX, 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, AMD64, Enhanced Virus Protection, Virtualization	Single-Channel DDR4-2133, Virtualization,
VirusProtect	+	no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon II N370 and A4-9120C are enumerated here.

AMD-V

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon II N370 and A4-9120C. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

DDR3

DDR4

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

no data

AMD Radeon R4 (Stoney Ridge)

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.

Athlon II N370 0.58
+7.4%

A4-9120C 0.54

Athlon II N370 outperforms A4-9120C by 7% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 68%

Athlon II N370 899
+8.3%

A4-9120C 830

Athlon II N370 outperforms A4-9120C by 8% in Passmark.