AMD Athlon Silver 7120U vs Apple A12 Bionic

Comparative analysis of AMD Athlon Silver 7120U and Apple A12 Bionic processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Compatibility, Peripherals, Graphics. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon Silver 7120U

  • CPU is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 41% higher clock speed: 3.5 GHz vs 2.49 GHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 6 nm vs 7 nm
  • 170.7x more L1 cache, more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
Launch date 20 Sep 2022 vs 21 Sep 2018
Maximum frequency 3.5 GHz vs 2.49 GHz
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm vs 7 nm
L1 cache 64K (per core) vs 128 KB instruction + 128 KB data (per core)

Reasons to consider the Apple A12 Bionic

  • 4 more cores, run more applications at once: 6 vs 2
  • 4 more threads: 6 vs 2
  • 8x more L2 cache, more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later
  • 2.5x lower typical power consumption: 6 Watt vs 15 Watt
  • Around 2% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1989 vs 1956
  • Around 59% better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 4988 vs 3142
Specifications (specs)
Number of cores 6 vs 2
Number of threads 6 vs 2
L2 cache 8 MB (shared) vs 512K (per core)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 6 Watt vs 15 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 1989 vs 1956
PassMark - CPU mark 4988 vs 3142

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Athlon Silver 7120U
CPU 2: Apple A12 Bionic

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
1956
1989
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
3142
4988
Name AMD Athlon Silver 7120U Apple A12 Bionic
PassMark - Single thread mark 1956 1989
PassMark - CPU mark 3142 4988

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Athlon Silver 7120U Apple A12 Bionic

Essentials

Launch date 20 Sep 2022 21 Sep 2018
Place in performance rating 1321 1268
Architecture codename Vortex/Tempest
OS Support iOS 12.0, iOS 16.4.1, iPadOS 16.4.1, tvOS 14.5, tvOS 16.2
Processor Number APL1W81
Vertical segment Mobile

Performance

Base frequency 2.4 GHz 1.59 GHz
Die size 100 mm²
L1 cache 64K (per core) 128 KB instruction + 128 KB data (per core)
L2 cache 512K (per core) 8 MB (shared)
L3 cache 2MB (shared)
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm 7 nm
Maximum core temperature 95°C
Maximum frequency 3.5 GHz 2.49 GHz
Number of cores 2 6
Number of threads 2 6
Unlocked
Transistor count 6.9 billion

Memory

ECC memory support
Supported memory types DDR5, Dual-channel LPDDR4X-4266
Max memory channels 1
Maximum memory bandwidth 34.1 GB/s
Maximum memory size 4 GB

Compatibility

Max number of CPUs in a configuration 1 1
Sockets supported FP6
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 6 Watt

Peripherals

PCIe configurations Gen 3, 4 Lanes, (CPU only)

Graphics

Execution Units 16
Graphics base frequency 1125 MHz
iGPU core count 4