Athlon Silver 7120U vs Athlon II P320

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Primary details

Comparing Athlon II P320 and Athlon Silver 7120U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated1926
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD Athlon IIno data
Power efficiencyno data12.49
Architecture codenameChamplain (2010−2011)Mendocino (Zen 2) (2022−2023)
Release date12 May 2010 (14 years ago)20 September 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Athlon II P320 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 speedno data2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed2.1 GHz3.5 GHz
Bus rate3200 MHzno data
L1 cache256 KB64 KB (per core)
L2 cache1 MB512 KB (per core)
L3 cacheno data2 MB (shared)
Chip lithography45 nm6 nm
Die sizeno data100 mm2
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-no data

Compatibility

Information on Athlon II P320 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 configurationno data1
SocketS1g4FP6
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon II P320 and Athlon Silver 7120U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsSSE-3, SSE4A, 3DNow!, MMX, DEP, SVMXFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT
AES-NI-+
AVX-+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon II P320 and Athlon Silver 7120U are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon II P320 and Athlon Silver 7120U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR5 Dual-channel

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataAMD Radeon 610M

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon II P320 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.



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 II P320 695
Athlon Silver 7120U 3142
+352%

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Athlon II P320 170
Athlon Silver 7120U 962
+466%

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Athlon II P320 314
Athlon Silver 7120U 1584
+404%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 May 2010 20 September 2022
Chip lithography 45 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 15 Watt

Athlon Silver 7120U has an age advantage of 12 years, a 650% more advanced lithography process, and 66.7% lower power consumption.

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