Athlon Gold 7220C vs A4-9120C

Primary details

Comparing A4-9120C and Athlon Gold 7220C processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking	2841	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	AMD Bristol Ridge	AMD Mendocino (Zen 2, Ryzen 7020)
Power efficiency	8.52	no data
Architecture codename	Stoney Ridge (2016−2019)	Mendocino (Zen 2) (2022−2023)
Release date	6 January 2019 (5 years ago)	23 May 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

A4-9120C and Athlon Gold 7220C 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	4
Base clock speed	no data	2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed	1.6 GHz	3.7 GHz
Multiplier	16	no data
L1 cache	160 KB	128 KB
L2 cache	1 MB	1 MB
L3 cache	no data	4 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	6 nm
Die size	124.5 mm2	no data
Number of transistors	1200 Million	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	no data

Compatibility

Information on A4-9120C and Athlon Gold 7220C 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	BGA	no data
Power consumption (TDP)	6 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by A4-9120C and Athlon Gold 7220C. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	Virtualization,	XFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT
AES-NI	+	-
AVX	+	-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by A4-9120C and Athlon Gold 7220C are enumerated here.

AMD-V

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-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by A4-9120C and Athlon Gold 7220C. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR4	no data
Maximum memory bandwidth	14.936 GB/s	no data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card Compare

AMD Radeon R4 (Stoney Ridge)

AMD Radeon 610M

Pros & cons summary

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Integrated graphics card	1.17	2.85
Recency	6 January 2019	23 May 2023
Threads	2	4
Chip lithography	28 nm	6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	6 Watt	15 Watt

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