Intel Core i5-3340M vs AMD Athlon Silver 7120U

Core i5-3340M vs Athlon Silver 7120U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon Silver 7120U is faster than the Core i5-3340M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3340M in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i5-3340M has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-3340M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon Silver 7120U. Despite this, the Athlon Silver 7120U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Athlon Silver 7120U outputs less heat than Core i5-3340M 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 i5-3340M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.