Ryzen 3 2200U vs Athlon Silver 7120U comparison
In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 2200U beats the Athlon Silver 7120U in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon Silver 7120U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.
Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 3 2200U has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 2200U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon Silver 7120U. Despite this, the Athlon Silver 7120U has a slightly higher turbo speed. 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 data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Ryzen 3 2200U also has significantly more L3 cache.
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 Ryzen 3 2200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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