AMD A6-1450 vs AMD A4-9120. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  AMD A AMD A
• Generation
  7 6
• CPU group
  AMD A6-1000 AMD A4-9000

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  1.00 GHz 2.20 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  1.40 GHz 2.50 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 2
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Core architecture
  normal normal

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  AMD Radeon HD 8250 AMD Radeon R3 (Stoney Ridge)
• GPU frequency
  0.30 GHz 0.66 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.40 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  2 2
• Shader
  128 128
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 2 GB
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Generation
  5 7
• DirectX Version
  11.1 12
• Technology
  28 nm 28 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2013 Q2/2016

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode
• h264
  Decode Decode
• VP9
  No Decode
• VP8
  No Decode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD A4-9120 and AMD A6-1450. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3L-1066 SO-DIMM DDR4-2133
• Max. Memory
  8 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 1
• PCIe version
  3.0
• PCIe lanes
  8

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD A6-1450 and AMD A4-9120 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  8 W 15 W
• TDP down
  -- 10 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 90 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD A6-1450 and AMD A6-1450, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V AMD-V
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB 2.00 MB
• Architecture
  Kabini (Jaguar) Stoney Ridge (Excavator)
• Technology
  28 nm 28 nm
• Socket
  FT3 FP4
• Release date
  Q2/2013 Q2/2017