AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE vs Intel Core i3-2130

AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3400 MHz / Cores: 2 / Jul 2020
AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE
Intel Core i3-2130
Intel Socket 1155DESKTOP
3400 MHz / Cores: 2 / Sep 2011
Intel Core i3-2130

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE
    132%
  • Intel Core i3-2130
    100%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE
    121%
  • Intel Core i3-2130
    100%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE
    143%
  • Intel Core i3-2130
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE

Much higher single threaded performance (around 21% higher), makes a noticeable performance difference in gaming and the majority of applications.
Much higher multi threaded performance (around 43% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).
Around 32% higher average synthetic performance.

Reasons to consider Intel Core i3-2130

None

AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE

Gaming

HWBench recommends AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GEIntel Core i3-2130
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4A
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
AES
AVX
AVX2
BMI1
BMI2
SHA
F16C
FMA3
AMD64
EVP
AMD-V
SMAP
SMEP
Precision Boost

Architecture

AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GEIntel Core i3-2130
ArchitectureAMD Zen+vsIntel_SandyBridge
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4-2933 MHz Dual-channelvsDDR3
CodenameDalivsSandy Bridge
Release DateJul 2020vsSep 2011

Cores

AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GEIntel Core i3-2130
Cores2vs2
Threads4vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsRadeon Vega 3vsIntel HD 2000

Cache

AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GEIntel Core i3-2130
L1 Cache96K (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512K (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache4MB (shared)vs3072 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GEIntel Core i3-2130
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsIntel Socket 1155
Max Case Temp95°Cvsunknown
PackageµOPGA-1331vsFC-LGA10
Die Sizeunknownvs131mm²
Process12 nmvs32 nm

Performance

AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GEIntel Core i3-2130
Cpu Frequency3400 MHzvs3400 MHz
Turbo Clocknonevsnone
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
VoltageN/Avsunknown
TDP35 Wvs65 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE
    3740 points
  • Intel Core i3-2130
    3400 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE
    9125 points
  • Intel Core i3-2130
    8160 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE (simulated)
    140.8
  • Intel Core i3-2130 (simulated)
    115.42

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE (simulated)
    441.69
  • Intel Core i3-2130 (simulated)
    307

points - higher is better