AMD Athlon Silver 7120U vs Apple A14 Bionic. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  AMD Athlon Apple A series
• CPU group
  AMD Athlon Silver 7000 Apple A14
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  5 14
• Predecessor
  -- Apple A13 Bionic
• Successor
  -- Apple A15 Bionic

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 hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• Overclocking
  No No
• Frequency
  2.40 GHz 3.00 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 Apple A14
• GPU frequency
  1.90 GHz 1.80 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 3.01 GHz
• Execution units
  2 4
• Shader
  128 0
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB 8 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  9 11
• Technology
  6 nm 5 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2022 Q3/2020

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

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  Decode Decode
• AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Apple A14 Bionic and AMD Athlon Silver 7120U. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR5-5500 LPDDR4X-4266
• Max. Memory
  16 GB 6 GB
• Memory channels
  2 (Dual Channel) 2
• ECC
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon Silver 7120U and Apple A14 Bionic to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  15 W 7 W
• Tjunction max.
  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 5 nm
• Socket
  FT6 N/A
• L2-Cache
  1.00 MB 4.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB --
• Architecture
  Mendocino (Zen2) A14 (Firestorm/Icestorm)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM None
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• Release date
  Q3/2022 Q3/2020
• Part Number
  100-000000772 --