Intel Core i3-8130U vs AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i3 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

1216 points
1% slightly better overall score
1200 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2360 points
2572 points
8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

910 points
5% slightly better multitasking score
864 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

872 points
4% slightly better heavy workload score
831 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.90 points
18% slightly higher Blender score
15.05 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1902 points
40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1350 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1019 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
778 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
100% significantly more threads
2

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.2 GHz
2.3 GHz
4% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed
3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
Identical
15 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

128 KiB
192 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
1 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
Identical
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

897th of 1,089
902nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i3
Athlon Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 February
2020 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i3-8130U vs Athlon Silver 3050U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-8130U performs better than the Athlon Silver 3050U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon Silver 3050U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i3-8130U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon Silver 3050U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-8130U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Athlon Silver 3050U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-8130U. 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 i3-8130U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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