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

Core i3-3217U vs Athlon Silver 3050e comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon Silver 3050e performs better than the Core i3-3217U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-3217U in all gaming tests too.

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 Athlon Silver 3050e outputs less heat than Core i3-3217U thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.