AMD Ryzen 5 7520U vs AMD Athlon Silver 7120U. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  AMD Ryzen 5 AMD Athlon
• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen 7000U AMD Athlon Silver 7000
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  6 5

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.

• CPU Cores / Threads
  4 / 8 2 / 2
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Cores
  4x Zen 2 2x
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Frequency
  2.80 GHz 2.40 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  4.30 GHz 3.50 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.

• GPU name
  AMD Radeon 610M Graphics AMD Radeon 610M Graphics
• GPU frequency
  1.90 GHz 1.90 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  2 2
• Shader
  128 128
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB 8 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  9 9
• Direct X
  12 12
• Technology
  6 nm 6 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2022 Q3/2022

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

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  Decode Decode
• AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Athlon Silver 7120U and AMD Ryzen 5 7520U. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR5-5500 LPDDR5-5500
• Max. Memory
  16 GB 16 GB
• Memory channels
  2 (Dual Channel) 2 (Dual Channel)
• Bandwidth
  44.0 GB/s 44.0 GB/s
• ECC
  No Yes
• PCIe
  3.0 x 4 3.0 x 4
• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 5 7520U and AMD Athlon Silver 7120U to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  15 W 15 W
• TDP down
  8 W --
• Tjunction max.
  100 °C 95 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 5 7520U and AMD Ryzen 5 7520U, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Technology
  6 nm 6 nm
• Chip design
  Chiplet
• Socket
  FT6 FT6
• L2-Cache
  2.00 MB 1.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 2.00 MB
• Architecture
  Mendocino (Zen 2) Mendocino (Zen2)
• Operating systems
  Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux Windows 11, Linux
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM AMD-V, SVM
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• Release date
  Q3/2022 Q3/2022
• Part Number
  100-000000770 100-000000772
• Documents
  Technical data sheet Technical data sheet