Intel Core i3-3240 vs AMD Athlon Silver 7120U

Core i3-3240 vs Athlon Silver 7120U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-3240 beats the Athlon Silver 7120U in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon Silver 7120U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i3-3240 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-3240 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon Silver 7120U. The Athlon Silver 7120U outputs less heat than Core i3-3240 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i3-3240 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.