Intel Core i3-2100 vs AMD Athlon Silver 7120U

Compare Intel Core 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

1270 points

1294 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2433 points

2824 points

16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

956 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

923 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

918 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

886 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.20 points

60% significantly higher Blender score

9.49 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

947 points

1563 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

465 points

942 points

102% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

29% slightly higher clock speed

2.40 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

895th of 1,111

888th of 1,111

Family

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Core

Athlon 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Core i3-2100 vs Athlon Silver 7120U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon Silver 7120U is faster than the Core i3-2100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-2100 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i3-2100 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-2100 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon Silver 7120U. The Athlon Silver 7120U outputs less heat than Core i3-2100 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 Core i3-2100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.