AMD A6-5200 vs AMD Athlon Silver 3050e

Compare AMD A6-Series APU for Desktops 4 core CPU vs AMD Athlon Mobile 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

709 points
3% slightly better overall score
687 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1313 points
1472 points
12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

540 points
8% slightly better multitasking score
499 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

518 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score
480 points

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Other Benchmarks

Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

843 points
1358 points
61% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

587 points
1321 points
125% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

205 points
698 points
240% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz
43% significantly higher clock speed
1.40 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

25 W
6 W
316% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

1
2
100% significantly more memory channels

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,027th of 1,089
1,035th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A6-Series APU for Desktops
Athlon Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May
2020 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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A6-5200 vs Athlon Silver 3050e benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the A6-5200 beats the Athlon Silver 3050e in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon Silver 3050e has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the A6-5200 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Athlon Silver 3050e that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the A6-5200 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon Silver 3050e. The Athlon Silver 3050e outputs less heat than A6-5200 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the A6-5200 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Athlon Silver 3050e

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 A6-5200 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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