Athlon Silver 7120U vs Pentium Dual T4400

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Aggregate performance score

Pentium Dual Core T4400
2009
2 cores / 2 threads, 35 Watt
0.81
Athlon Silver 7120U
2022
2 cores / 2 threads, 15 Watt
1.98
+144%

Athlon Silver 7120U outperforms Pentium Dual Core T4400 by a whopping 144% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Pentium Dual Core T4400 and Athlon Silver 7120U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking26081940
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel Pentium Dual Coreno data
Power efficiency2.1912.49
Architecture codenamePenryn (2008−2011)Mendocino (Zen 2) (2022−2023)
Release date1 December 2009 (15 years ago)20 September 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium Dual Core T4400 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 cores2 (Dual-core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads22
Base clock speed2.2 GHz2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed2.2 GHz3.5 GHz
Bus rate800 MHzno data
L1 cache128 KB64 KB (per core)
L2 cache1 MB512 KB (per core)
L3 cache0 KB2 MB (shared)
Chip lithography45 nm6 nm
Die size107 mm2100 mm2
Number of transistors410 millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-no data

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Dual Core T4400 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
SocketPFP6
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Dual Core T4400 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-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium Dual Core T4400 and Athlon Silver 7120U are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium Dual Core T4400 and Athlon Silver 7120U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3DDR5 Dual-channel

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardOn certain motherboards (Chipset feature)AMD Radeon 610M ( - 1900 MHz)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium Dual Core T4400 and Athlon Silver 7120U.

PCIe versionno data3.0
PCI Express lanesno data4

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.

Pentium Dual T4400 0.81
Athlon Silver 7120U 1.98
+144%

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.

Pentium Dual T4400 1284
Athlon Silver 7120U 3145
+145%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 0.81 1.98
Recency 1 December 2009 20 September 2022
Chip lithography 45 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 15 Watt

Athlon Silver 7120U has a 144.4% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 12 years, a 650% more advanced lithography process, and 133.3% lower power consumption.

The Athlon Silver 7120U is our recommended choice as it beats the Pentium Dual Core T4400 in performance tests.


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