Intel Xeon W3520 vs AMD Athlon Silver 7120U

Xeon W3520 vs Athlon Silver 7120U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon W3520 is faster than the Athlon Silver 7120U. Despite this, the Athlon Silver 7120U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon W3520 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Athlon Silver 7120U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon Silver 7120U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon W3520 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 Xeon W3520 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 Xeon W3520 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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. For instance, the Xeon W3520 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.