AMD A4-9120 vs Intel Pentium 4405U. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  AMD A Intel Pentium
• Generation
  6 6
• CPU group
  AMD A4-9000 Intel Pentium 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
  2.20 GHz 2.10 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.50 GHz No turbo
• CPU Threads
  2 4
• Turbo (2 Cores)
  2.20 GHz No turbo
• Hyperthreading
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• 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
  AMD Radeon R3 (Stoney Ridge) Intel HD Graphics 510
• GPU frequency
  0.66 GHz 0.30 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 0.95 GHz
• Execution units
  2 12
• Shader
  128 96
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 32 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  7 9
• DirectX Version
  12 12.0
• Technology
  28 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2016 Q1/2015

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Pentium 4405U and AMD A4-9120. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2133 DDR4-2133
• Max. Memory
  8 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  1 2
• PCIe version
  3.0 2.0
• PCIe lanes
  8 10

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD A4-9120 and Intel Pentium 4405U to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  15 W 15 W
• TDP down
  10 W --
• Tjunction max.
  90 °C --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD A4-9120 and AMD A4-9120, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4 SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB 2.00 MB
• Architecture
  Stoney Ridge (Excavator) Skylake U
• Technology
  28 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  FP4 BGA 1356
• Release date
  Q2/2017 Q3/2015