AMD Athlon Silver 7120U vs AMD Phenom II X4 940. Specifications

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

• CPU group
  AMD Athlon Silver 7000 AMD Phenom II - 800/900
• Family
  Athlon AMD Phenom II
• Form Factor
  Laptops / Desktops -
• Generation
  5 4
• Segment
  Mobile Desktop / Server
• Series
  Athlon 7000 Series -

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  2.4 GHz 3 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Core Configuration
  2x -
• CPU Cores
  2 4
• CPU Threads
  2 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Max. Boost Clock
  3.5 GHz -
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.5 GHz No turbo
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  - No turbo

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

• DirectX Version
  12 -
• Execution units
  2 -
• Generation
  9 -
• GPU Frequency
  1900 MHz -
• GPU name
  AMD Radeon 610M no iGPU
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo
• Graphics Cores
  2 -
• Max. displays
  3 -
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB -
• Release date
  Q3/2022 -
• Shader
  128 -
• Technology
  6 nm -

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

• AV1
  Decode No
• H.264 / AVC
  Decode / Encode No
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode No
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• VP8
  Decode / Encode No
• VP9
  Decode / Encode No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Phenom II X4 940 and AMD Athlon Silver 7120U. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Max. Memory
  16 GB -
• Memory Bandwidth
  44 GB/s -
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  LPDDR5 DDR2-1066
• PCIe
  PCIe 3.0 -

• AES-NI
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon Silver 7120U and AMD Phenom II X4 940 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Default TDP
  15 W -
• Maximum Operating Temperature
  95 °C -
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  15 W 125 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Athlon Silver 7120U and AMD Phenom II X4 940, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Mendocino (Zen2) Deneb (K10)
• Codename
  Mendocino -
• Documents
  Technical data sheet -
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE3, SSE4a
• L1-Cache
  0.25 MB -
• L2-Cache
  1 MB -
• L3-Cache
  2 MB 6 MB
• Manufacturer product ID (tray)
  100-000000772 -
• Operating systems
  Conflicting source values: Windows 11 - 64-Bit Edition / Ubuntu x86 64-Bit | Windows 11, Linux -
• Part Number
  100-000000772 -
• Release date
  Q3/2022 Q1/2009
• Socket
  FT6 AM2+
• Technology
  TSMC 6nm FinFET 45 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM AMD-V