AMD A4-9120 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 690. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  AMD A Qualcomm Snapdragon
• Generation
  6 8
• CPU group
  AMD A4-9000 Qualcomm Snapdragon 690

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 1.70 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 8
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.50 GHz 2.00 GHz
• CPU Threads
  2 8
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• A core
  -- 2x Kryo 560 Gold
• B core
  -- 6x Kryo 560 Silver

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) Qualcomm Adreno 619L
• GPU frequency
  0.66 GHz 0.95 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  2 0
• Shader
  128 0
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB --
• Max. displays
  3 0
• Generation
  7 6
• DirectX Version
  12 12.1
• Technology
  28 nm 8 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2016 Q4/2020

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Qualcomm Snapdragon 690 and AMD A4-9120. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2133 LPDDR4X-1866
• Max. Memory
  8 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  1 2
• PCIe version
  3.0
• PCIe lanes
  8

• AES-NI
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD A4-9120 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 690 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  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) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V None
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB --
• Architecture
  Stoney Ridge (Excavator) Kryo 560
• Technology
  28 nm 8 nm
• Socket
  FP4 N/A
• Release date
  Q2/2017 Q4/2020
• Part Number
  -- SM6350