Processor Intel Core i7-3520M, specifications and benchmarks

• CPU group
  Intel Core i 3000M
• Family
  Intel Core i7
• Generation
  3
• Name
  Intel Core i7-3520M
• Predecessor
  —
• Segment
  Mobile
• Successor
  —

• A-Core
  —
• B-Core
  —
• Base Frequency
  2.9 GHz
• C-Core
  —
• Core architecture
  normal
• CPU Cores
  2
• CPU Threads
  4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes
• Overclocking
  No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.6 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  3.4 GHz

• DirectX Version
  11.0
• Execution units
  16
• Generation
  7
• GPU Frequency
  650 MHz
• GPU name
  Intel HD Graphics 4000
• GPU Turbo
  1250 MHz
• Max. displays
  3
• Max. GPU Memory
  —
• Release date
  Q1/2011
• Shader
  128
• Technology
  22 nm

• AV1
  No
• H.264 / AVC
  Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No
• JPEG
  Decode
• VC-1
  Decode
• VP8
  No
• VP9
  No

• ECC
  No
• Max. Memory
  —
• Memory channels
  2
• Memory type
  DDR3-1333DDR3-1600DDR3L-1333 SO-DIMMDDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM
• PCIe lanes
  16
• PCIe version
  3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  —
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  35 W
• TDP (PL2)
  —
• TDP down
  —
• TDP up
  —

• Architecture
  Ivy Bridge H
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
• L2-Cache
  —
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB
• Part Number
  —
• Release date
  Q2/2012
• Socket
  BGA 1023
• Technology
  22 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d

Common positions Intel Core i7-3520M CPU in popular benchmarks, for comparison with other models.

• Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)
  419 place
• Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)
  825 place
• Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
  904 place
• iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
  1072 place
• Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)
  430 place
• Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
  515 place
• Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark
  719 place