Athlon Silver 7120U vs Ryzen 5 6600HS

Place in performance ranking	587	1829
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Architecture codename	Rembrandt-HS (Zen 3+)	Mendocino (Zen 2)
Release date	January 2022 (2 years ago)	20 September 2022 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

Ryzen 5 6600HS 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 cores	6 (Hexa-Core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	12	2
Base clock speed	3.3 GHz	2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed	4.5 GHz	3.5 GHz
L1 cache	64K (per core)	64 KB (per core)
L2 cache	512K (per core)	512 KB (per core)
L3 cache	16 MB (shared)	2 MB (shared)
Chip lithography	6 nm	6 nm
Die size	208 mm²	100 mm²
Maximum core temperature	95 °C	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	+	no data
Unlocked multiplier	No	No

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 5 6600HS 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 configuration	1	1
Socket	FP7	FP6
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 6600HS and Athlon Silver 7120U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	DDR5-4800/LPDDR5-6400 RAM (incl. ECC), PCIe 4, MMX (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4A, AES, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, SHA	XFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT
AES-NI	+	+
AVX	+	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 5 6600HS and Athlon Silver 7120U are enumerated here.

AMD-V

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 5 6600HS and Athlon Silver 7120U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

DDR5

DDR5 Dual-channel

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon 660M

AMD Radeon 610M

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 5 6600HS and Athlon Silver 7120U.

PCIe version	4.0	3.0
PCI Express lanes	20	4

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.

Ryzen 5 6600HS 12.27
+501%

Athlon Silver 7120U 2.04

Ryzen 5 6600HS outperforms Athlon Silver 7120U by 501% based on our aggregate 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%

Ryzen 5 6600HS 18975
+502%

Athlon Silver 7120U 3150

Ryzen 5 6600HS outperforms Athlon Silver 7120U by 502% in Passmark.