Intel Core i7-7500U vs AMD Athlon Silver 7120U

Core i7-7500U vs Athlon Silver 7120U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-7500U is faster than the Athlon Silver 7120U. Despite this, the Athlon Silver 7120U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-7500U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-7500U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon Silver 7120U. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i7-7500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.