Athlon Silver 7120U vs Pentium E5500

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Aggregate performance score

Pentium E5500
2010
2 cores / 2 threads, 65 Watt
0.65
Athlon Silver 7120U
2022
2 cores / 2 threads, 15 Watt
1.98
+205%

Athlon Silver 7120U outperforms Pentium E5500 by a whopping 205% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Pentium E5500 and Athlon Silver 7120U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking27621940
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.04no data
Market segmentDesktop processorLaptop
Power efficiency0.9512.49
Architecture codenameWolfdale (2008−2010)Mendocino (Zen 2) (2022−2023)
Release date18 April 2010 (14 years ago)20 September 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$109no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Pentium E5500 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 speed2.8 GHz2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed2.8 GHz3.5 GHz
L1 cache64 KB (per core)64 KB (per core)
L2 cache2 MB (shared)512 KB (per core)
L3 cache0 KB2 MB (shared)
Chip lithography45 nm6 nm
Die size82 mm2100 mm2
Maximum core temperature74 °Cno data
Number of transistors228 millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-no data
VID voltage range0.85V-1.3625Vno data

Compatibility

Information on Pentium E5500 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 configuration11
SocketLGA775FP6
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium E5500 and Athlon Silver 7120U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataXFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT
AES-NI-+
AVX-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+no data
Turbo Boost Technology-no data
Hyper-Threading Technology-no data
Idle States+no data
Thermal Monitoring+-
Demand Based Switching-no data

Security technologies

Pentium E5500 and Athlon Silver 7120U technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-no data
EDB+no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium E5500 and Athlon Silver 7120U are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+
VT-d-no data
VT-x+no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium E5500 and Athlon Silver 7120U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR1, DDR2, DDR3DDR5 Dual-channel

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataAMD Radeon 610M ( - 1900 MHz)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium E5500 and Athlon Silver 7120U.

PCIe version2.03.0
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.


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.

Pentium E5500 0.65
Athlon Silver 7120U 1.98
+205%

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.

Pentium E5500 1040
Athlon Silver 7120U 3145
+202%

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.

Pentium E5500 301
Athlon Silver 7120U 968
+222%

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.

Pentium E5500 478
Athlon Silver 7120U 1599
+235%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 0.65 1.98
Recency 18 April 2010 20 September 2022
Chip lithography 45 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 15 Watt

Athlon Silver 7120U has a 204.6% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 12 years, a 650% more advanced lithography process, and 333.3% lower power consumption.

The Athlon Silver 7120U is our recommended choice as it beats the Pentium E5500 in performance tests.

Note that Pentium E5500 is a desktop processor while Athlon Silver 7120U is a notebook one.


Should you still have questions on choice between Pentium E5500 and Athlon Silver 7120U, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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