A4-9120C vs Pentium III 1400S

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Primary details

Comparing Pentium III 1400S and A4-9120C processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated2837
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processorLaptop
Seriesno dataAMD Bristol Ridge
Power efficiencyno data8.51
Architecture codenameTualatin (2000−2002)Stoney Ridge (2016−2019)
Release dateJanuary 2002 (22 years ago)6 January 2019 (5 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium III 1400S and A4-9120C 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 cores1 (Single-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads12
Boost clock speed1.4 GHz1.6 GHz
Multiplierno data16
L1 cache8 KB160 KB
L2 cache512 KB1 MB
L3 cache0 KBno data
Chip lithography130 nm28 nm
Die size80 mm2124.5 mm2
Maximum case temperature (TCase)69 °Cno data
Number of transistors44 million1200 Million
64 bit support-+
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Pentium III 1400S and A4-9120C 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
Socket370BGA
Power consumption (TDP)32 Watt6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium III 1400S and A4-9120C. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataVirtualization,
AES-NI-+
AVX-+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium III 1400S and A4-9120C are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium III 1400S and A4-9120C. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR4
Maximum memory bandwidthno data14.936 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataAMD Radeon R4 (Stoney Ridge)

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.



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 III 1400S 194
A4-9120C 850
+338%

Pros & cons summary


Physical cores 1 2
Threads 1 2
Chip lithography 130 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 32 Watt 6 Watt

A4-9120C has 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads, a 364.3% more advanced lithography process, and 433.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Pentium III 1400S and A4-9120C. We've got no test results to judge.

Note that Pentium III 1400S is a desktop processor while A4-9120C is a notebook one.


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