AMD Athlon 320GE vs Intel Core i3-2120. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Family
  AMD Athlon Intel Core i3
• CPU group
  AMD Athlon 300 Intel Core i 2000
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Generation
  4 2

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Frequency
  3.50 GHz 3.30 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  AMD Radeon Vega 3 Graphics Intel HD Graphics 2000
• GPU frequency
  1.10 GHz 0.85 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 1.10 GHz
• Execution units
  3 6
• Shader
  192 48
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB --
• Max. displays
  3 2
• Generation
  8 6
• Technology
  14 nm 32 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2018 Q1/2011

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode No
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode No
• VP9
  Decode / Encode No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i3-2120 and AMD Athlon 320GE. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2666 DDR3-1066DDR3-1333
• Max. Memory
  64 GB 32 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• ECC
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon 320GE and Intel Core i3-2120 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  35 W 65 W
• Tjunction max.
  95 °C --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Athlon 320GE and AMD Athlon 320GE, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
• L2-Cache
  1.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 3.00 MB
• Architecture
  Dali (Zen) Sandy Bridge S
• Technology
  14 nm 32 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM VT-x, VT-x EPT
• Socket
  AM4 LGA 1155
• Release date
  Q3/2019 Q1/2011