Athlon Silver 7120U vs Athlon 300U

Place in the ranking	1756	1926
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	AMD Athlon	no data
Power efficiency	15.36	12.51
Architecture codename	Raven Ridge 2 (2019)	Mendocino (Zen 2) (2022−2023)
Release date	6 January 2019 (5 years ago)	20 September 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Athlon 300U 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	2 (Dual-core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	4	2
Base clock speed	2.4 GHz	2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed	3.3 GHz	3.5 GHz
Bus type	PCIe 3.0	no data
Multiplier	24	no data
L1 cache	192 KB	64 KB (per core)
L2 cache	1 MB	512 KB (per core)
L3 cache	4 MB (shared)	2 MB (shared)
Chip lithography	14 nm	6 nm
Die size	209.78 mm²	100 mm²
Number of transistors	4940 Million	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	+	no data

Compatibility

Information on Athlon 300U 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 (Uniprocessor)	1
Socket	FP5	FP6
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon 300U and Athlon Silver 7120U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

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

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon 300U and Athlon Silver 7120U are enumerated here.

AMD-V

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon 300U and Athlon Silver 7120U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR4 Dual-channel	DDR5 Dual-channel
Maximum memory size	64 GB	no data
Max memory channels	2	no data
Maximum memory bandwidth	38.397 GB/s	no data
ECC memory support	+	-

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

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AMD Radeon 610M

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon 300U and Athlon Silver 7120U.

PCIe version	3.0	3.0
PCI Express lanes	12	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.

Athlon 300U 2.48
+22.8%

Athlon Silver 7120U 2.02

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.

Athlon 300U 3867
+23.1%

Athlon Silver 7120U 3142