Intel Core i3-8109U vs AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

Core i3-8109U vs Athlon Silver 3050U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-8109U beats the Athlon Silver 3050U in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon Silver 3050U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i3-8109U has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-8109U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon Silver 3050U. Also, the Core i3-8109U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Athlon Silver 3050U outputs less heat than Core i3-8109U 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 Athlon Silver 3050U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-8109U. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 i3-8109U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.