Intel Core i3-8145U vs AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

Core i3-8145U vs Athlon Silver 3050U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-8145U is faster than the Athlon Silver 3050U. Despite this, the Athlon Silver 3050U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i3-8145U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon Silver 3050U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-8145U. Despite this, the Core i3-8145U 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 info from our database shows that the Athlon Silver 3050U has more L2 cache than the Core i3-8145U. 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 i3-8145U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.