AMD Athlon Silver 7120U vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  AMD Athlon AMD Ryzen
• CPU group
  AMD Athlon Silver 7000 AMD Ryzen 5000
• Segment
  Mobile Desktop / Server
• Generation
  5 4
• Predecessor
  -- AMD Ryzen 5 4600H

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.

• CPU Cores / Threads
  2 / 2 6 / 12
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Cores
  2x 6x
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Frequency
  2.40 GHz 3.50 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.50 GHz 4.40 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 no iGPU
• GPU frequency
  1.90 GHz --
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  2 --
• Shader
  128 --
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB --
• Max. displays
  3 --
• Generation
  9 --
• Direct X
  12 --
• Technology
  6 nm --
• Release date
  Q3/2022 --

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 No
• VP8
  Decode / Encode No
• VP9
  Decode / Encode No
• AV1
  Decode No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 5 5600 and AMD Athlon Silver 7120U. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR5-5500 DDR4-3200
• Max. Memory
  16 GB 64 GB
• Memory channels
  2 (Dual Channel) 2
• Bandwidth
  44.0 GB/s 51.2 GB/s
• ECC
  Yes No
• PCIe
  3.0 x 4 4.0 x 20
• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon Silver 7120U and AMD Ryzen 5 5600 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  15 W 65 W
• TDP down
  -- 45 W
• Tjunction max.
  95 °C 95 °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 7 nm
• Socket
  FT6 AM4
• L2-Cache
  1.00 MB 3.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB 32.00 MB
• Architecture
  Mendocino (Zen2) Vermeer (Zen 3)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM AMD-V, SVM
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• Release date
  Q3/2022 Q2/2022
• Part Number
  100-000000772 --
• Documents
  Technical data sheet Technical data sheet