Athlon Silver 7120U vs Pentium 4 2.4

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Primary details

Comparing Pentium 4 2.4 and Athlon Silver 7120U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated1940
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processorLaptop
Power efficiencyno data12.49
Architecture codenameNorthwood (2002−2004)Mendocino (Zen 2) (2022−2023)
Release dateApril 2002 (22 years ago)20 September 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium 4 2.4 and Athlon Silver 7120U 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 cores1 (Single-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads12
Base clock speedno data2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed2.4 GHz3.5 GHz
L1 cache8 KB64 KB (per core)
L2 cache512 KB512 KB (per core)
L3 cache0 KB2 MB (shared)
Chip lithography130 nm6 nm
Die size146 mm2100 mm2
Number of transistors55 millionno data
64 bit support-+
Windows 11 compatibility-no data

Compatibility

Information on Pentium 4 2.4 and Athlon Silver 7120U 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 configuration11
Socket478FP6
Power consumption (TDP)110 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium 4 2.4 and Athlon Silver 7120U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataXFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT
AES-NI-+
AVX-+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium 4 2.4 and Athlon Silver 7120U are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium 4 2.4 and Athlon Silver 7120U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR1, DDR2DDR5 Dual-channel

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataAMD Radeon 610M ( - 1900 MHz)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium 4 2.4 and Athlon Silver 7120U.

PCIe versionno data3.0
PCI Express lanesno data4

Pros & cons summary


Physical cores 1 2
Threads 1 2
Chip lithography 130 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 110 Watt 15 Watt

Athlon Silver 7120U has 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads, a 2066.7% more advanced lithography process, and 633.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Pentium 4 2.4 and Athlon Silver 7120U. We've got no test results to judge.

Note that Pentium 4 2.4 is a desktop processor while Athlon Silver 7120U is a notebook one.


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