AMD FX-770K vs AMD Athlon Silver 7120U

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs AMD Athlon 7000 Series 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1287 points

1294 points

0.54% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2439 points

2824 points

15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

971 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

923 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

931 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

886 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.04 points

90% significantly higher Blender score

9.49 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

45% significantly higher clock speed

2.40 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

891st of 1,111

888th of 1,111

Family

The product line

Athlon 7000 Series

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-770K vs Athlon Silver 7120U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon Silver 7120U is faster than the FX-770K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-770K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the FX-770K has more threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-770K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon Silver 7120U. Also, the FX-770K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Athlon Silver 7120U outputs less heat than FX-770K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the FX-770K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Athlon Silver 7120U

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 FX-770K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.