AMD Athlon Silver 7120U vs Intel Core i5-6440HQ. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  AMD Athlon Silver 7000 Intel Core i 6000H
• Family
  Athlon Intel Core i5
• Form Factor
  Laptops / Desktops -
• Generation
  5 6
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• 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
  2.4 GHz 2.6 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Core Configuration
  2x -
• CPU Cores
  2 4
• CPU Threads
  2 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Max. Boost Clock
  3.5 GHz -
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.5 GHz 3.5 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  - 3.1 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 9
• GPU Frequency
  1900 MHz 350 MHz
• GPU name
  AMD Radeon 610M Intel HD Graphics 530
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo 950 MHz
• Graphics Cores
  2 -
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB 64 GB
• Release date
  Q3/2022 Q3/2015
• 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 No
• H.264 / AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-6440HQ and AMD Athlon Silver 7120U. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Max. Memory
  16 GB -
• Memory Bandwidth
  44 GB/s -
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  LPDDR5 DDR4-2133 SO-DIMM
• PCIe
  PCIe 3.0 -
• PCIe lanes
  - 16
• PCIe version
  - 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon Silver 7120U and Intel Core i5-6440HQ 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 -
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  15 W 45 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Athlon Silver 7120U and Intel Core i5-6440HQ, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Mendocino (Zen2) Skylake H
• 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
• L1-Cache
  0.25 MB -
• L2-Cache
  1 MB -
• L3-Cache
  2 MB 6 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 Q3/2015
• Socket
  FT6 BGA 1440
• Technology
  TSMC 6nm FinFET 14 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d