Intel Core i7-920 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

$ 99.95
$ 69.99
$ 29.96 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1474 points
1477 points
0.20% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2489 points
2742 points
10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1179 points
3% slightly better multitasking score
1135 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1132 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score
1095 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

31.28 points
31.38 points
0.33% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points
1966 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

419 points
957 points
128% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1431 points
1970 points
37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

415 points
956 points
130% 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

2.79 GHz
3.5 GHz
25% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W
35 W
271% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

3
49% significantly more memory channels
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
700% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

814th of 1,089
813th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
Athlon Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 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 i7-920 vs Athlon 3000G specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Athlon 3000G beats the Core i7-920 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-920 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-920 has significantly more cores than the Athlon 3000G. Indeed, the Core i7-920 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Athlon 3000G. It also has more threads than the Athlon 3000G. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon 3000G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-920. The Athlon 3000G outputs less heat than Core i7-920 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-920 has more L2 cache than the Athlon 3000G

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 i7-920 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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