Celeron T3500 vs A4-9120C

Place in the ranking	2857	2913
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	AMD Bristol Ridge	no data
Power efficiency	8.51	1.30
Architecture codename	Stoney Ridge (2016−2019)	no data
Release date	6 January 2019 (5 years ago)	1 July 2010 (14 years ago)

Detailed specifications

A4-9120C and Celeron T3500 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)	no data
Threads	2	no data
Base clock speed	no data	2.1 GHz
Boost clock speed	1.6 GHz	no data
Multiplier	16	no data
L1 cache	160 KB	no data
L2 cache	1 MB	no data
L3 cache	no data	1 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	45 nm
Die size	124.5 mm²	no data
Number of transistors	1200 Million	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-

Compatibility

Information on A4-9120C and Celeron T3500 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	PGA478
Power consumption (TDP)	6 Watt	35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by A4-9120C and Celeron T3500. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	Virtualization,	no data
AES-NI	+	-
AVX	+	-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by A4-9120C and Celeron T3500 are enumerated here.

AMD-V

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by A4-9120C and Celeron T3500. 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

AMD Radeon R4 (Stoney Ridge) ( - 600 MHz)

no data

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.

A4-9120C 0.54
+12.5%

Celeron T3500 0.48

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.

A4-9120C 850
+11.5%

Celeron T3500 762

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.54	0.48
Recency	6 January 2019	1 July 2010
Chip lithography	28 nm	45 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	6 Watt	35 Watt

A4-9120C has a 12.5% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 8 years, a 60.7% more advanced lithography process, and 483.3% lower power consumption.

The A4-9120C is our recommended choice as it beats the Celeron T3500 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions on choice between A4-9120C and Celeron T3500, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.