Athlon Silver 7120C vs Celeron N4020

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Primary details

Comparing Celeron N4020 and Athlon Silver 7120C processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking2491not rated
Place by popularity94not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel Gemini LakeMendocino (Zen 2, Ryzen 7020)
Power efficiency15.29no data
Architecture codenameGemini Lake Refresh (2019)Mendocino (Zen 2) (2022−2023)
Release date4 November 2019 (5 years ago)20 September 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Celeron N4020 and Athlon Silver 7120C 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 speed1.1 GHz2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed2.8 GHz3.5 GHz
Bus rate15 MHzno data
L1 cacheno data128 KB
L2 cache4 MB1 MB
L3 cache4 MB2 MB
Chip lithography14 nm6 nm
Maximum core temperature105 °Cno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility+no data

Compatibility

Information on Celeron N4020 and Athlon Silver 7120C 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 configuration1no data
SocketFCBGA1090no data
Power consumption (TDP)6 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Celeron N4020 and Athlon Silver 7120C. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.2XFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT
AES-NI+-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+no data
Speed Shift-no data
Turbo Boost Technology-no data
Hyper-Threading Technology-no data
Idle States+no data
Thermal Monitoring+-
Smart Response-no data
GPIO+no data
Turbo Boost Max 3.0-no data

Security technologies

Celeron N4020 and Athlon Silver 7120C technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

EDB+no data
Secure Key+no data
MPX+-
Identity Protection+-
SGXYes with Intel® MEno data
OS Guard+no data
Anti-Theft-no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Celeron N4020 and Athlon Silver 7120C are enumerated here.

VT-d+no data
VT-x+no data
EPT+no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Celeron N4020 and Athlon Silver 7120C. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4no data
Maximum memory size8 GBno data
Max memory channels2no data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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Intel UHD Graphics 600AMD Radeon 610M ( - 1900 MHz)
Max video memory8 GBno data
Quick Sync Video+-
Graphics max frequency650 MHzno data
Execution Units12no data

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Celeron N4020 and Athlon Silver 7120C integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported3no data
eDP+no data
DisplayPort+-
HDMI+-
MIPI-DSI+no data

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Celeron N4020 and Athlon Silver 7120C integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution support+no data
Max resolution over HDMI 1.44096x2160@30Hzno data
Max resolution over eDP4096x2160@60Hzno data
Max resolution over DisplayPort4096x2160@60Hzno data

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Celeron N4020 and Athlon Silver 7120C integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX12no data
OpenGL4.4no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Celeron N4020 and Athlon Silver 7120C.

PCIe version2.0no data
PCI Express lanes6no data
USB revision2.0/3.0no data
Total number of SATA ports2no data
Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Ports2no data
Number of USB ports8no data
Integrated LAN-no data
UART+no data

Pros & cons summary


Integrated graphics card 0.87 2.85
Recency 4 November 2019 20 September 2022
Chip lithography 14 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 6 Watt 15 Watt

Celeron N4020 has 150% lower power consumption.

Athlon Silver 7120C, on the other hand, has 227.6% faster integrated GPU, an age advantage of 2 years, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Celeron N4020 and Athlon Silver 7120C. We've got no test results to judge.


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