Intel Core i3-8109U vs AMD Athlon Silver 7120U. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Core i 8000U AMD Athlon Silver 7000
• Family
  Intel Core i3 Athlon
• Generation
  8 5
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Form Factor
  - Laptops / Desktops
• Series
  - Athlon 7000 Series

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

• Base Frequency
  3 GHz 2.4 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  2 2
• CPU Threads
  4 2
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.6 GHz 3.5 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  3.2 GHz -
• Core Configuration
  - 2x
• Max. Boost Clock
  - 3.5 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
  12 12
• Execution units
  48 2
• Generation
  9.5 9
• GPU Frequency
  300 MHz 1900 MHz
• GPU name
  Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 AMD Radeon 610M
• GPU Turbo
  1050 MHz No turbo
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  32 GB 8 GB
• Release date
  Q4/2017 Q3/2022
• Shader
  384 128
• Technology
  14 nm 6 nm
• Graphics Cores
  - 2

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Athlon Silver 7120U and Intel Core i3-8109U. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Max. Memory
  32 GB 16 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR4-2400 SO-DIMM LPDDR5
• PCIe lanes
  16 -
• PCIe version
  3.0 -
• Memory Bandwidth
  - 44 GB/s
• PCIe
  - PCIe 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Core i3-8109U and AMD Athlon Silver 7120U Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  - 95 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  28 W 15 W
• TDP down
  20 W -
• Default TDP
  - 15 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Core i3-8109U and AMD Athlon Silver 7120U, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Coffee Lake U Mendocino (Zen2)
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  - 1 MB
• L3-Cache
  4 MB 2 MB
• Part Number
  - 100-000000772
• Release date
  Q4/2017 Q3/2022
• Socket
  BGA 1528 FT6
• Technology
  14 nm TSMC 6nm FinFET
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V, SVM
• Codename
  - Mendocino
• Documents
  - Technical data sheet
• L1-Cache
  - 0.25 MB
• Manufacturer product ID (tray)
  - 100-000000772
• Operating systems
  - Conflicting source values: Windows 11 - 64-Bit Edition / Ubuntu x86 64-Bit | Windows 11, Linux