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

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.90 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

15.05 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1902 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1350 points

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

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

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

Identical

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

922nd of 1,118

927th of 1,118

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

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-8130U vs Athlon Silver 3050U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-8130U performs better than the Athlon Silver 3050U. Despite this, the Athlon Silver 3050U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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. Despite this, the Core i3-8130U has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. 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.