Intel Core i3-2120 vs AMD Athlon Silver 7120U

Core i3-2120 vs Athlon Silver 7120U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-2120 beats the Athlon Silver 7120U in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon Silver 7120U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i3-2120 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-2120 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon Silver 7120U. The Athlon Silver 7120U outputs less heat than Core i3-2120 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 i3-2120 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.