Intel Core i5-4210M vs AMD Athlon Silver 7120U

Core i5-4210M vs Athlon Silver 7120U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon Silver 7120U performs better than the Core i5-4210M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4210M in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i5-4210M has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-4210M has a slightly higher clock speed than 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 i5-4210M thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-4210M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.