Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS vs Athlon Silver 7120C

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Primary details

Comparing Athlon Silver 7120C and Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated297
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopServer
SeriesMendocino (Zen 2, Ryzen 7020)no data
Power efficiencyno data40.38
Architecture codenameMendocino (Zen 2) (2022−2023)Hawk Point-HS (Zen 4) (2023−2024)
Release date20 September 2022 (2 years ago)16 April 2024 (less than a year ago)

Detailed specifications

Athlon Silver 7120C and Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS 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)8 (Octa-Core)
Threads216
Base clock speed2.4 GHz4 GHz
Boost clock speed3.5 GHz5.2 GHz
L1 cache128 KB64 KB (per core)
L2 cache1 MB1 MB (per core)
L3 cache2 MB16 MB (shared)
Chip lithography6 nm4 nm
Die sizeno data178 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno data100 °C
Number of transistorsno data25,000 million
64 bit support++

Compatibility

Information on Athlon Silver 7120C and Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS 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
Socketno dataFP7
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt45 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon Silver 7120C and Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsXFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMTRyzen AI, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, AVX-512, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME
AES-NI-+
FMA-+
AVX-+
Precision Boost 2no data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon Silver 7120C and Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon Silver 7120C and Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR5

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon 610MAMD Radeon 780M

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon Silver 7120C and Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS.

PCIe versionno data4.0
PCI Express lanesno data20

Pros & cons summary


Integrated graphics card 2.85 18.31
Recency 20 September 2022 16 April 2024
Physical cores 2 8
Threads 2 16
Chip lithography 6 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 45 Watt

Athlon Silver 7120C has 200% lower power consumption.

Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS, on the other hand, has 542.5% faster integrated GPU, an age advantage of 1 year, 300% more physical cores and 700% more threads, and a 50% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Athlon Silver 7120C and Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Athlon Silver 7120C is a notebook processor while Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS is a server/workstation one.


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