Intel Core i7-2670QM vs AMD Athlon 3000G

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs AMD Athlon Desktop 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 129.00
$ 69.99
$ 59.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

947 points
1477 points
55% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1375 points
2742 points
99% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

811 points
1135 points
39% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

772 points
1095 points
41% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

26.96 points
31.38 points
16% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1461 points
1966 points
34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

466 points
957 points
105% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1444 points
1970 points
36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

466 points
956 points
105% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.2 GHz
3.5 GHz
59% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
35 W
28% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

969th of 1,089
813th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
Athlon Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 November
2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
-

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i7-2670QM vs Athlon 3000G specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon 3000G is faster than the Core i7-2670QM. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2670QM in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-2670QM has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Athlon 3000G that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon 3000G. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon 3000G has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-2670QM. The Athlon 3000G outputs less heat than Core i7-2670QM thanks to a slightly 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 i7-2670QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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