Intel Core i7-950 vs AMD Athlon Silver 7120U

Core i7-950 vs Athlon Silver 7120U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-950 is faster than the Athlon Silver 7120U. Despite this, the Athlon Silver 7120U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-950 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Athlon Silver 7120U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon Silver 7120U. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-950 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to 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 i7-950 thanks to a significantly 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 i7-950 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.