AMD Athlon Silver 7120U vs AMD Ryzen 3 5300U

Let's find out which one of AMD Athlon Silver 7120U and AMD Ryzen 3 5300U is of a more recent generation, and what segment it belongs to.

• Name
  AMD Athlon Silver 7120U AMD Ryzen 3 5300U
• Family
  AMD Athlon AMD Ryzen
• CPU group
  AMD Athlon Silver 7000 AMD Ryzen 5000U
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  5 4

In this block we are going to compare AMD Athlon Silver 7120U vs AMD Ryzen 3 5300U by main technical specifications: number of cores and threads, base and maximum frequencies, process technology and cache size. The higher these specifications are, the more powerful your CPU will be.

• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Overclocking
  No No
• Frequency
  2.40 GHz 2.60 GHz

Common specifications for integrated graphics cards in AMD Athlon Silver 7120U and AMD Ryzen 3 5300U along with supported interfaces and connection options. This block has no effect on the final efficiency of the CPU.

• GPU name
  AMD Radeon 610M Graphics AMD Radeon 6 Graphics (Renoir)
• GPU frequency
  0.40 GHz 1.50 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  1.90 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  2 6
• Shader
  128 384
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB 2 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  9 9
• Technology
  6 nm 7 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2022 Q1/2020

Let's compare the support of video codecs between AMD Athlon Silver 7120U and AMD Ryzen 3 5300U. Hardware support of video decoding by embedded graphics cards directly affects the speed and quality of rendering videos.

• 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 No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

To choose the best model between AMD Athlon Silver 7120U and AMD Ryzen 3 5300U you need to pay special attention to memory type, clock frequency, multi-channel features, and PCIe version. The higher these numbers are, the better your CPU will be. Keep in mind that the maximum memory and frequency may also depend on the model of the motherboard.

• Memory type
  LPDDR5-5500 DDR4-3200LPDDR4-4266
• Max. Memory
  16 GB 32 GB
• Memory channels
  2 (Dual Channel) 2
• ECC
  Yes Yes

Let's find out what TDP value would be better for AMD Athlon Silver 7120U or AMD Ryzen 3 5300U? The Thermal Design Power (TDP) indicates the maximum amount of heat that should be dissipated by the chip cooling system. However, the value of TDP gives only a rough indication of the real power consumption of the CPU.

• TDP (PL1)
  15 W 15 W
• TDP up
  -- 25 W
• TDP down
  -- 10 W
• Tjunction max.
  95 \xc2\xb0C 105 °C

Here you can find a comparison of 2nd and 3rd level cache sizes for AMD Athlon Silver 7120U and AMD Ryzen 3 5300U CPUs along with a list of ISA extensions.

• Technology
  6 nm 7 nm
• Socket
  FT6 FP6
• L2-Cache
  1.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Mendocino (Zen2) Lucienne (Zen 2)
• 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 Q1/2021
• Part Number
  100-000000772 --