AMD A6-5200 vs AMD Athlon Silver 7120U

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AMD A6-5200 CPU1 vs CPU2 AMD Athlon Silver 7120U
AMD A6-5200 AMD Athlon Silver 7120U

CPU comparison

AMD A6-5200 or AMD Athlon Silver 7120U - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results.

The AMD A6-5200 has 4 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 2.80 GHz. Up to GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The AMD A6-5200 was released in Q3/2013.

The AMD Athlon Silver 7120U has 2 cores with 2 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.50 GHz. The CPU supports up to 16 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The AMD Athlon Silver 7120U was released in Q3/2022.
AMD A (112) Family AMD Athlon (29)
AMD A6-5000 (3) CPU group AMD Athlon Silver 7000 (2)
4 Generation 5
Kabini (Jaguar) Architecture Mendocino (Zen2)
Mobile Segment Mobile
-- Predecessor --
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The AMD A6-5200 is a 4 core processor with a clock frequency of 2.80 GHz. The AMD Athlon Silver 7120U has 2 CPU cores with a clock frequency of 2.40 GHz (3.50 GHz).

AMD A6-5200 Characteristic AMD Athlon Silver 7120U
4 Cores 2
4 Threads 2
normal Core architecture normal
No Hyperthreading No
Yes Overclocking ? No
2.80 GHz Frequency 2.40 GHz
-- Turbo Frequency (1 Core) 3.50 GHz
-- Turbo Frequency (All Cores) --

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

AMD A6-5200 Characteristic AMD Athlon Silver 7120U
-- AI hardware --
-- AI specifications --

Internal Graphics

The integrated graphics unit of a processor is not only responsible for the pure image output on the system, but can also significantly increase the efficiency of the system with the support of modern video codecs.

AMD Radeon HD 8400 GPU AMD Radeon 610M
0.60 GHz GPU frequency 0.40 GHz
-- GPU (Turbo) 1.90 GHz
5 GPU Generation 9
28 nm Technology 6 nm
2 Max. displays 3
2 Compute units 2
128 Shader 128
No Hardware Raytracing Yes
No Frame Generation No
2 GB Max. GPU Memory 8 GB
11.1 DirectX Version 12

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

AMD Radeon HD 8400 GPU AMD Radeon 610M
No Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) Decode / Encode
No Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode Codec h264 Decode / Encode
No Codec VP9 Decode / Encode
No Codec VP8 Decode / Encode
No Codec AV1 Decode
Decode Codec AVC Decode / Encode
Decode Codec VC-1 Decode
Decode / Encode Codec JPEG Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The AMD A6-5200 supports a maximum of GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The AMD Athlon Silver 7120U can connect up to 16 GB of memory in 2 memory channels.

AMD A6-5200 Characteristic AMD Athlon Silver 7120U
DDR3L-1600 Memory LPDDR5-5500
Max. Memory 16 GB
2 (Dual Channel) Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
25.6 GB/s Max. Bandwidth 44.0 GB/s
No ECC Yes
-- L2 Cache 1.00 MB
2.00 MB L3 Cache 2.00 MB
-- PCIe version 3.0
-- PCIe lanes 4
-- PCIe Bandwidth 3.9 GB/s

Thermal Management

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of a processor specifies the required cooling solution. The AMD A6-5200 has a TDP of 25 W, that of the AMD Athlon Silver 7120U is 15 W.

AMD A6-5200 Characteristic AMD Athlon Silver 7120U
25 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) 15 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
-- TDP down --
-- Tjunction max. 95 °C

Technical details

The AMD A6-5200 has a 2.00 MB cache, while the AMD Athlon Silver 7120U cache has a total of 3.00 MB.

AMD A6-5200 Characteristic AMD Athlon Silver 7120U
28 nm Technology 6 nm
Unknown Chip design Unknown
x86-64 (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX ISA extensions SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
-- Socket FT6
AMD-V Virtualization AMD-V, SVM
Yes AES-NI Yes
Operating systems Windows 11, Linux
Q3/2013 Release date Q3/2022
-- Release price --
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks
AMD A6-5200 (32%)
AMD Athlon Silver 7120U (100%)
⌀ Multi core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks
AMD A6-5200 (46%)
AMD Athlon Silver 7120U (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
AMD A6-5200 AMD A6-5200
4C 4T @ 2.80 GHz
225 (32%)
AMD Athlon Silver 7120U AMD Athlon Silver 7120U
2C 2T @ 3.50 GHz
711 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
AMD A6-5200 AMD A6-5200
4C 4T @ 2.80 GHz
709 (59%)
AMD Athlon Silver 7120U AMD Athlon Silver 7120U
2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz
1199 (100%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
AMD A6-5200 AMD A6-5200
AMD Radeon HD 8400 @ 0.60 GHz
154 (40%)
AMD Athlon Silver 7120U AMD Athlon Silver 7120U
AMD Radeon 610M @ 1.90 GHz
383 (100%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
AMD A6-5200 AMD A6-5200
4C 4T @ 2.80 GHz
1660 (33%)
AMD Athlon Silver 7120U AMD Athlon Silver 7120U
2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz
4978 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
AMD A6-5200 AMD A6-5200
4C 4T @ 2.80 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Athlon Silver 7120U AMD Athlon Silver 7120U
2C 2T @ 3.50 GHz
1093 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
AMD A6-5200 AMD A6-5200
4C 4T @ 2.80 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Athlon Silver 7120U AMD Athlon Silver 7120U
2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz
1911 (100%)

Devices using this processor

AMD A6-5200 AMD Athlon Silver 7120U
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