AMD Athlon Silver 7120U vs Intel Core i5-11400. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  AMD Athlon Silver 7000 Intel Core i 11000
• Family
  Athlon Intel Core i5
• Form Factor
  Laptops / Desktops -
• Generation
  5 11
• Predecessor
  - Intel Core i5-10400
• Segment
  Mobile Desktop / Server
• Series
  Athlon 7000 Series -
• Successor
  - Intel Core i5-12400

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

• Base Frequency
  2.4 GHz 2.6 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Core Configuration
  2x -
• CPU Cores
  2 6
• CPU Threads
  2 12
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Max. Boost Clock
  3.5 GHz -
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.5 GHz 4.4 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (6 Cores)
  - 4.2 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
  2 24
• Generation
  9 12
• GPU Frequency
  1900 MHz 350 MHz
• GPU name
  AMD Radeon 610M Intel UHD Graphics 730
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo 1300 MHz
• Graphics Cores
  2 -
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB 64 GB
• Release date
  Q3/2022 Q1/2021
• Shader
  128 192
• Technology
  6 nm 14 nm

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

• AV1
  Decode 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 Intel Core i5-11400 and AMD Athlon Silver 7120U. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Max. Memory
  16 GB 128 GB
• Memory Bandwidth
  44 GB/s -
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  LPDDR5 DDR4-3200
• PCIe
  PCIe 3.0 -
• PCIe lanes
  - 20
• PCIe version
  - 4.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon Silver 7120U and Intel Core i5-11400 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Default TDP
  15 W -
• Maximum Operating Temperature
  95 °C 100 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  15 W 65 W
• TDP (PL2)
  - 154 W / 56 s

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Athlon Silver 7120U and Intel Core i5-11400, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Mendocino (Zen2) Rocket Lake S
• Codename
  Mendocino -
• Documents
  Technical data sheet -
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512
• L1-Cache
  0.25 MB -
• L2-Cache
  1 MB 3 MB
• L3-Cache
  2 MB 12 MB
• Manufacturer product ID (tray)
  100-000000772 -
• Operating systems
  Conflicting source values: Windows 11 - 64-Bit Edition / Ubuntu x86 64-Bit | Windows 11, Linux -
• Part Number
  100-000000772 -
• Release date
  Q3/2022 Q1/2021
• Socket
  FT6 LGA 1200
• Technology
  TSMC 6nm FinFET 14 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d