AMD A4-9120C vs Apple A11 Bionic. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  AMD A Apple A series
• Generation
  6 11
• CPU group
  AMD A4-9000 Apple A11
• Predecessor
  -- Apple A10 Fusion
• Successor
  -- Apple A12 Bionic

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
  1.60 GHz 1.42 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 6
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.40 GHz 2.39 GHz
• CPU Threads
  2 6
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• A core
  -- 2x Monsoon
• B core
  -- 4x Mistral

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 R4 (Stoney Ridge) Apple A11
• GPU frequency
  0.60 GHz 1.42 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 2.39 GHz
• Execution units
  3 3
• Shader
  192 0
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 3 GB
• Max. displays
  3 1
• Generation
  7 8
• DirectX Version
  12
• Technology
  28 nm 10 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2016 Q3/2017

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 / Encode
• VP9
  Decode Decode
• VP8
  Decode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Apple A11 Bionic and AMD A4-9120C. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-1866 LPDDR4X-4266
• Max. Memory
  8 GB 16 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  1 1
• PCIe version
  3.0
• PCIe lanes
  8

• AES-NI
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD A4-9120C and Apple A11 Bionic to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  6 W 8 W
• Tjunction max.
  90 °C --

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

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V None
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4
• L2-Cache
  -- 8.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB --
• Architecture
  Stoney Ridge (Excavator) A11
• Technology
  28 nm 10 nm
• Socket
  FP4 N/A
• Release date
  Q1/2019 Q3/2017