Intel Core i5-5257U vs AMD Athlon Silver 7120U

Core i5-5257U vs Athlon Silver 7120U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-5257U performs better than the Athlon Silver 7120U. 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 i5-5257U has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-5257U 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 i5-5257U thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Athlon Silver 7120U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-5257U. Despite this, the Core i5-5257U has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Athlon Silver 7120U.

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 i5-5257U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.