AMD A12-9720P vs AMD Athlon Silver 7120U

A12-9720P vs Athlon Silver 7120U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Athlon Silver 7120U beats the A12-9720P in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A12-9720P in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the A12-9720P has significantly more cores than the Athlon Silver 7120U. Indeed, the A12-9720P has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Athlon Silver 7120U. It also has more threads than the Athlon Silver 7120U. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the A12-9720P has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.