Intel Atom S1260 vs AMD A4-4020. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Atom S1000 AMD A4-4000
• Family
  Intel Atom AMD A
• Generation
  1 2
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server

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

• Base Frequency
  2 GHz 3.2 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  2 2
• CPU Threads
  4 2
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  No turbo 3.4 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  No turbo 3.4 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.

• DirectX Version
  - 11
• Execution units
  - 2
• Generation
  - 4
• GPU Frequency
  - 720 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU AMD Radeon HD 7480D
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo
• Max. displays
  - 2
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 2 GB
• Release date
  - Q2/2012
• Shader
  - 128
• Technology
  - 32 nm

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD A4-4020 and Intel Atom S1260. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  1 2
• Memory type
  DDR3-1333 DDR3-1333
• PCIe lanes
  8 -
• PCIe version
  2.0 -

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Atom S1260 and AMD A4-4020 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  8.5 W 65 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Atom S1260 and AMD A4-4020, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Centerton Richland (Piledriver)
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE3 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4
• L3-Cache
  1 MB 1 MB
• Release date
  Q4/2012 Q1/2014
• Socket
  BGA 1283 FM2
• Technology
  32 nm 32 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x AMD-V