AMD Athlon Silver 7120U vs AMD A12-9700P. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  AMD Athlon AMD A
• CPU group
  AMD Athlon Silver 7000 AMD A12-9700
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  5 6
• Predecessor
  -- No
• Successor
  -- No

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.

• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Overclocking
  No No
• Frequency
  2.40 GHz 2.50 GHz

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 610M Graphics AMD Radeon R7 - 512
• GPU frequency
  1.90 GHz 0.76 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  2 8
• Shader
  128 512
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB 2 GB
• Max. displays
  3 2
• Generation
  9 6
• Technology
  6 nm 28 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2022 Q2/2016

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD A12-9700P and AMD Athlon Silver 7120U. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR5-5500 DDR4-1866
• Max. Memory
  16 GB 64 GB
• Memory channels
  2 (Dual Channel) 2
• ECC
  Yes No
• PCIe
  3.0 x 4 3.0 x 8

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon Silver 7120U and AMD A12-9700P to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  15 W 15 W
• TDP (PL2)
  -- No
• TDP up
  -- No
• TDP down
  -- No
• Tjunction max.
  95 °C 90 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Athlon Silver 7120U and AMD Athlon Silver 7120U, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Technology
  6 nm 28 nm
• Socket
  FT6 FP4
• L2-Cache
  1.00 MB 2.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB No
• Architecture
  Mendocino (Zen2) Excavator
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM AMD-V
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, FMA4
• Release date
  Q3/2022 Q4/2016