Intel Core i7-4558U vs AMD Athlon Silver 7120U

Core i7-4558U vs Athlon Silver 7120U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Athlon Silver 7120U beats the Core i7-4558U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4558U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-4558U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4558U 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 i7-4558U thanks to a significantly 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 i7-4558U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.