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

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

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

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.

• Frequency
  2.00 GHz 3.20 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo 3.40 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 2
• Turbo (2 Cores)
  No turbo 3.40 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Core architecture
  normal normal

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

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

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• h264
  No Decode
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No Decode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode

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.

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

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Atom S1260 and AMD A4-4020 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  8.5 W 65 W

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

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x AMD-V
• ISA extensions
  SSE3 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4
• L3-Cache
  1.00 MB 1.00 MB
• Architecture
  Centerton Richland (Piledriver)
• Technology
  32 nm 32 nm
• Socket
  BGA 1283 FM2
• Release date
  Q4/2012 Q1/2014