Intel Core i7-2820QM vs AMD Athlon 3000G

Core i7-2820QM vs Athlon 3000G comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-2820QM is faster than the Athlon 3000G. Despite this, the Athlon 3000G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-2820QM 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 i7-2820QM. The Athlon 3000G outputs less heat than Core i7-2820QM thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-2820QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.