Athlon Silver 7120C vs Core 2 Duo T6500

Primary details

Comparing Core 2 Duo T6500 and Athlon Silver 7120C processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	Intel Core 2 Duo	Mendocino (Zen 2, Ryzen 7020)
Architecture codename	Penryn (2008−2011)	Mendocino (Zen 2) (2022−2023)
Release date	1 January 2009 (15 years ago)	20 September 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Core 2 Duo T6500 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 cores	2 (Dual-core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	2	2
Base clock speed	2.1 GHz	2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed	2.1 GHz	3.5 GHz
Bus rate	800 MHz	no data
L1 cache	no data	128 KB
L2 cache	2 MB	1 MB
L3 cache	2 MB L2 Cache	2 MB
Chip lithography	45 nm	6 nm
Die size	107 mm2	no data
Maximum core temperature	105 °C	no data
Number of transistors	410 Million	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	no data

Compatibility

Information on Core 2 Duo T6500 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.

Socket	PGA478	no data
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Core 2 Duo T6500 and Athlon Silver 7120C. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	no data	XFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	+	no data
Turbo Boost Technology	-	no data
Hyper-Threading Technology	-	no data

Security technologies

Core 2 Duo T6500 and Athlon Silver 7120C technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

EDB

+

no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Core 2 Duo T6500 and Athlon Silver 7120C are enumerated here.

VT-x

-

no data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

no data

AMD Radeon 610M

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	1 January 2009	20 September 2022
Chip lithography	45 nm	6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	15 Watt

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