AMD Athlon Silver 7120U Benchmark, Test and specs

Last updated: 2023-10-26

The AMD Athlon Silver 7120U has 2 cores with 2 threads and is based on the 5. gen of the AMD Athlon series. The processor uses a mainboard with the FT6 socket and was released in Q3/2022. The AMD Athlon Silver 7120U scores 711 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 1,199 points.

CPU lineage
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Name:	AMD Athlon Silver 7120U
Family:	AMD Athlon (29)
CPU group:	AMD Athlon Silver 7000 (2)
Architecture:	Mendocino (Zen2)
Segment:	Mobile
Generation:	5
Predecessor:	--
Successor:	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The AMD Athlon Silver 7120U has 2 CPU cores and can calculate 2 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the AMD Athlon Silver 7120U is 2.40 GHz (3.50 GHz). The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.

CPU Cores / Threads:	2 / 2
Core architecture:	normal
Cores:	2x

Hyperthreading / SMT:	No
Overclocking:	No
Frequency:	2.40 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core):	3.50 GHz
Turbo Frequency (2 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.

AI hardware:	--
AI specifications:	--

Internal Graphics

The AMD Athlon Silver 7120U has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the AMD Athlon Silver 7120U uses the AMD Radeon 610M, which has 128 texture shaders and 2 execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

GPU name:	AMD Radeon 610M
GPU frequency:	0.40 GHz
GPU (Turbo):	1.90 GHz
Compute units:	2
Shader:	128
Hardware Raytracing:	Yes
Release date:	Q3/2022

Max. displays:	3
Generation:	9
Direct X:	12
Technology:	6 nm
Max. GPU Memory:	8 GB
Frame Generation:	No

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.

h265 / HEVC (8 bit):	Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (10 bit):	Decode / Encode
h264:	Decode / Encode
VP8:	Decode / Encode
VP9:	Decode / Encode

AV1:	Decode
AVC:	Decode / Encode
VC-1:	Decode
JPEG:	Decode / Encode

Memory type:	Memory bandwidth:
Memory & PCIe The processor can use up to 16 GB memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 44.0 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system.

LPDDR5-5500	44.0 GB/s
Max. Memory:	16 GB
Memory channels:	2 (Dual Channel)
ECC:	Yes
PCIe:	3.0 x 4
PCIe Bandwidth:	3.9 GB/s

Thermal Management The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 15 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually gives a rough idea of the actual power consumption of the CPU.

TDP (PL1 / PBP):	15 W
TDP (PL2):	--
TDP up:	--
TDP down:	--
Tjunction max.:	95 °C

Technical details

The AMD Athlon Silver 7120U is made in 6 nm. The smaller the manufacturing process of a CPU, the more modern and energy-efficient it is. Overall, the processor has 3.00 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.

Technology:	6 nm
Chip design:
Socket:	FT6
L2-Cache:	1.00 MB
L3-Cache:	2.00 MB
AES-NI:	Yes
Operating systems:	Windows 11, Linux

Virtualization:	AMD-V, SVM
Instruction set (ISA):	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions:	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
Release date:	Q3/2022
Release price:	--
Part Number:	100-000000772
Documents:	Technical data sheet

AMD Athlon Silver 7120U
2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz (3.50 GHz)

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Benchmark results

The benchmark results for the AMD Athlon Silver 7120U have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.

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.


	Intel Core i5-3340 4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	714
	Intel Core i5-3340S 4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	714
	Intel Core i5-3350P 4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	714
	AMD Athlon Silver 7120U 2C 2T @ 3.50 GHz	711
	MediaTek Kompanio 900T 8C 8T @ 2.40 GHz	711
	Intel Core i5-6400T 4C 4T @ 2.80 GHz	711
	MediaTek MT8188J 8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz	710

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.


	Intel Core i3-2120T 2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz	1202
	Intel Core i5-3337U 2C 4T @ 1.80 GHz	1202
	AMD A8-5557M 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	1201
	AMD Athlon Silver 7120U 2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz	1199
	Intel Core i7-3689Y 2C 4T @ 1.50 GHz	1199
	Apple A9X 2C 2T @ 2.26 GHz	1198
	Intel Core m5-6Y57 2C 4T @ 2.20 GHz	1195

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.


	Intel Core i7-6820HQ 4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz	1096
	Intel Core i7-6870HQ 4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz	1096
	AMD Ryzen 5 1600 6C 12T @ 3.60 GHz	1095
	AMD Athlon Silver 7120U 2C 2T @ 3.50 GHz	1093
	Apple A11 Bionic 6C 6T @ 2.39 GHz	1093
	Intel Core m7-6Y75 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	1093
	Intel Core i7-6660U 2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	1092

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.


	Intel Core i5-3475S 4C 4T @ 2.90 GHz	1932
	Intel Core i3-4160T 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	1923
	Intel Core i5-3470S 4C 4T @ 2.90 GHz	1916
	AMD Athlon Silver 7120U 2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz	1911
	Intel Core i5-3450S 4C 4T @ 2.80 GHz	1902
	Intel Core i7-940 4C 8T @ 2.93 GHz	1890
	Intel Pentium Gold G6405 2C 4T @ 4.10 GHz	1890

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.


	Intel Core i5-4670 Intel HD Graphics 4600 @ 1.20 GHz	384
	Intel Core i5-4670K Intel HD Graphics 4600 @ 1.20 GHz	384
	Intel Core i5-4670T Intel HD Graphics 4600 @ 1.20 GHz	384
	AMD Athlon Silver 7120U AMD Radeon 610M @ 1.90 GHz	383
	AMD Athlon Silver 7120C AMD Radeon 610M @ 1.90 GHz	383
	AMD Athlon Gold 7220C AMD Radeon 610M @ 1.90 GHz	383
	AMD Athlon Gold 7220U AMD Radeon 610M @ 1.90 GHz	383

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 Athlon Gold 7220U 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	5012
	AMD FX-4320 4C 4T @ 4.20 GHz	5011
	Intel Xeon E3-1235L v5 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	5008
	AMD Athlon Silver 7120U 2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz	4978
	Intel Core i5-4570S 4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	4960
	Intel Core i5-3570K 4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz	4958
	Intel Core i3-7350K 2C 4T @ 4.20 GHz	4946

Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,488 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,461 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,755 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,703 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,042 entries

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
516 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,392 entries

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