Intel Pentium N3520 vs AMD Athlon Silver 7120C

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Intel Pentium N3520 CPU1 vs CPU2 AMD Athlon Silver 7120C
Intel Pentium N3520 AMD Athlon Silver 7120C

CPU comparison

Intel Pentium N3520 or AMD Athlon Silver 7120C - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results.

The Intel Pentium N3520 has 4 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 2.42 GHz. Up to 8 GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The Intel Pentium N3520 was released in Q4/2013.

The AMD Athlon Silver 7120C has 2 cores with 2 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.50 GHz. The CPU supports up to 16 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The AMD Athlon Silver 7120C was released in Q3/2022.
Intel Pentium (150) Family AMD Athlon (29)
Intel Pentium J2000/N3500 (6) CPU group AMD Athlon Silver 7000 (2)
6 Generation 5
Bay Trail Architecture Mendocino (Zen2)
Desktop / Server Segment Mobile
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-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Pentium N3520 is a 4 core processor with a clock frequency of 2.17 GHz (2.42 GHz). The AMD Athlon Silver 7120C has 2 CPU cores with a clock frequency of 2.40 GHz (3.50 GHz).
Intel Pentium N3520 Characteristic AMD Athlon Silver 7120C
4 Cores 2
4 Threads 2
normal Core architecture normal
No Hyperthreading No
No Overclocking ? No
2.17 GHz Frequency 2.40 GHz
2.42 GHz Turbo Frequency (1 Core) 3.50 GHz
2.42 GHz Turbo Frequency (All Cores) --

NPU AI performance

The performance values of the processor's AI unit. The isolated NPU performance is specified here, the total AI performance (NPU+CPU+iGPU) can be higher. Processors with support for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors.
Intel Pentium N3520 Characteristic AMD Athlon Silver 7120C
-- AI hardware --
-- AI specifications --
-- NPU + CPU + iGPU --

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

The integrated graphics unit of a processor is not only responsible for the pure image output on the system, but can also significantly increase the efficiency of the system with the support of modern video codecs.
Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1) GPU AMD Radeon 610M
0.31 GHz GPU frequency 0.40 GHz
0.85 GHz GPU (Turbo) 1.90 GHz
7 GPU Generation 9
22 nm Technology 6 nm
2 Max. displays 3
4 Compute units 2
32 Shader 128
No Hardware Raytracing Yes
No Frame Generation No
2 GB Max. GPU Memory 8 GB
11.2 DirectX Version 12

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.
Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1) GPU AMD Radeon 610M
No Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) Decode / Encode
No Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec h264 Decode / Encode
No Codec VP9 Decode / Encode
No Codec VP8 Decode / Encode
No Codec AV1 Decode
Decode / Encode Codec AVC Decode / Encode
Decode Codec VC-1 Decode
Decode Codec JPEG Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The Intel Pentium N3520 supports a maximum of 8 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The AMD Athlon Silver 7120C can connect up to 16 GB of memory in 2 memory channels.
Intel Pentium N3520 Characteristic AMD Athlon Silver 7120C
DDR3-1333 Memory LPDDR5-5500
8 GB Max. Memory 16 GB
2 (Dual Channel) Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
21.3 GB/s Max. Bandwidth 44.0 GB/s
No ECC No
-- L2 Cache 1.00 MB
2.00 MB L3 Cache 2.00 MB
2.0 PCIe version 3.0
4 PCIe lanes 4
2.0 GB/s PCIe Bandwidth 3.9 GB/s

Thermal Management

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of a processor specifies the required cooling solution. The Intel Pentium N3520 has a TDP of 7.5 W, that of the AMD Athlon Silver 7120C is 15 W.
Intel Pentium N3520 Characteristic AMD Athlon Silver 7120C
7.5 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) 15 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
4.5 W TDP down --
100 °C Tjunction max. 95 °C

Technical details

The Intel Pentium N3520 has a 2.00 MB cache, while the AMD Athlon Silver 7120C cache has a total of 3.00 MB.
Intel Pentium N3520 Characteristic AMD Athlon Silver 7120C
22 nm Technology 6 nm
Monolithic Chip design Unknown
x86-64 (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
SSE4.1, SSE4.2 ISA extensions SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
BGA 1170 Socket FT6
VT-x, VT-x EPT Virtualization AMD-V, SVM
No AES-NI Yes
Windows 10, Linux Operating systems Windows 11, Linux
Q4/2013 Release date Q3/2022
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iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
Intel Pentium N3520 Intel Pentium N3520
Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1) @ 0.85 GHz
55 (14%)
AMD Athlon Silver 7120C AMD Athlon Silver 7120C
AMD Radeon 610M @ 1.90 GHz
383 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Pentium N3520 Intel Pentium N3520
4C 4T @ 2.42 GHz
237 (100%)
AMD Athlon Silver 7120C AMD Athlon Silver 7120C
2C 2T @ 3.50 GHz
0 (0%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Pentium N3520 Intel Pentium N3520
4C 4T @ 2.42 GHz
752 (100%)
AMD Athlon Silver 7120C AMD Athlon Silver 7120C
2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz
0 (0%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
Intel Pentium N3520 Intel Pentium N3520
4C 4T @ 2.42 GHz
184 (100%)
AMD Athlon Silver 7120C AMD Athlon Silver 7120C
2C 2T @ 3.50 GHz
0 (0%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
Intel Pentium N3520 Intel Pentium N3520
4C 4T @ 2.42 GHz
560 (100%)
AMD Athlon Silver 7120C AMD Athlon Silver 7120C
2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz
0 (0%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
Intel Pentium N3520 Intel Pentium N3520
4C 4T @ 2.42 GHz
1139 (100%)
AMD Athlon Silver 7120C AMD Athlon Silver 7120C
2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Pentium N3520 Intel Pentium N3520
4C 4T @ 2.42 GHz
38 (100%)
AMD Athlon Silver 7120C AMD Athlon Silver 7120C
2C 2T @ 3.50 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Pentium N3520 Intel Pentium N3520
4C 4T @ 2.42 GHz
143 (100%)
AMD Athlon Silver 7120C AMD Athlon Silver 7120C
2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz
0 (0%)

Devices using this processor
Intel Pentium N3520 AMD Athlon Silver 7120C
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