AMD Athlon Silver 7120U vs Intel Core m3-8100Y. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  AMD Athlon Intel Core i3
• CPU group
  AMD Athlon Silver 7000 Intel Core M 8
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  5 8

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 1.10 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 Intel UHD Graphics 615
• GPU frequency
  1.90 GHz 0.30 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 0.90 GHz
• Execution units
  2 24
• Shader
  128 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB 16 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  9 9.5
• Technology
  6 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2022 Q4/2018

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 No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core m3-8100Y and AMD Athlon Silver 7120U. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR5-5500 DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMMLPDDR3-1866
• Max. Memory
  16 GB 16 GB
• Memory channels
  2 (Dual Channel) 2
• ECC
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon Silver 7120U and Intel Core m3-8100Y to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  15 W 5 W
• TDP up
  -- 8 W
• TDP down
  -- 4.5 W
• Tjunction max.
  95 °C 100 °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 14 nm
• Socket
  FT6 BGA 1515
• L2-Cache
  1.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Mendocino (Zen2) Amber Lake Y
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• Release date
  Q3/2022 Q3/2018
• Part Number
  100-000000772 --