Athlon Silver 7120U: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Athlon Silver 7120U provides poor benchmark performance at 1.98% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.
Summary
AMD started Athlon Silver 7120U sales 20 September 2022. This is a Mendocino (Zen 2) architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 2 cores and 2 threads, and is based on 6 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3500 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket FP6 processor with a TDP of 15 Watt. It supports DDR5 Dual-channel memory.
Primary details
Athlon Silver 7120U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | 1940 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Power efficiency | 12.49 | of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme) |
| Architecture codename | Mendocino (Zen 2) (2022−2023) | |
| Release date | 20 September 2022 (2 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
| Physical cores | 2 (Dual-core) | |
| Threads | 2 | |
| Base clock speed | 2.4 GHz | of 4.7 GHz (FX-9590) |
| Boost clock speed | 3.5 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| L1 cache | 64 KB (per core) | of 80 KB (EPYC 9965) |
| L2 cache | 512 KB (per core) | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
| L3 cache | 2 MB (shared) | of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X) |
| Chip lithography | 6 nm | of 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
| Die size | 100 mm2 | |
| 64 bit support | + |
Compatibility
Information on Athlon Silver 7120U compatibility with other computer components and devices: 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 | of 8 (Opteron 842) |
| Socket | FP6 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | of 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by 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 | |
| AES-NI | + | |
| AVX | + |
Virtualization technologies
Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.
| AMD-V | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Athlon Silver 7120U's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR5 Dual-channel |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into Athlon Silver 7120U.
| Integrated graphics card | AMD Radeon 610M ( - 1900 MHz) |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.
| PCIe version | 3.0 | of 5.0 (Core i9-12900K) |
| PCI Express lanes | 4 | of 128 (EPYC 7551P) |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Athlon Silver 7120U. Overall benchmark performance 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.
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.
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.
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.
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Intel equivalent
According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Athlon Silver 7120U is Core i7-5557U, which is slower by 1% and lower by 11 positions in our ranking.
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Recommended GPUs
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