Intel Core i3-3217U vs AMD Athlon Silver 3050e

Compare Intel Core 2 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

678 points
687 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1344 points
1472 points
9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

505 points
1% slightly better multitasking score
499 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

490 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score
480 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

616 points
1321 points
114% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

293 points
698 points
138% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.8 GHz
28% slightly higher clock speed
1.40 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

17 W
6 W
183% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,038th of 1,089
1,035th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
Athlon Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May
2020 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR4

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i3-3217U vs Athlon Silver 3050e comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-3217U performs better than the Athlon Silver 3050e. Despite this, the Athlon Silver 3050e has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-3217U has a slightly higher clock speed than 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. Indeed, the Core i3-3217U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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