AMD FX-4130 vs AMD Athlon Silver 7120U

Compare AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 2 core CPU vs AMD Athlon 7000 Series 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1311 points
1% slightly better overall score
1294 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2474 points
2824 points
14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

993 points
7% slightly better multitasking score
923 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

953 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score
886 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.35 points
61% significantly higher Blender score
9.49 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1060 points
1563 points
47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

415 points
942 points
126% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
100% significantly more threads
2

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
58% significantly higher clock speed
2.40 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed
3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W
15 W
733% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

192 KiB
256 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache
2 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

884th of 1,111
888th of 1,111

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition
Athlon 7000 Series

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

FX-4130 vs Athlon Silver 7120U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-4130 performs better than the Athlon Silver 7120U. Despite this, the Athlon Silver 7120U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the FX-4130 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-4130 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Athlon Silver 7120U. Also, the FX-4130 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Athlon Silver 7120U outputs less heat than FX-4130 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-4130 has significantly more L2 cache than the Athlon Silver 7120U. The FX-4130 also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the FX-4130 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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