Intel Core i5-2430M vs AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

Core i5-2430M vs Athlon Silver 3050U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Athlon Silver 3050U beats the Core i5-2430M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2430M in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i5-2430M has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-2430M has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon Silver 3050U. Despite this, the Athlon Silver 3050U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Athlon Silver 3050U outputs less heat than Core i5-2430M 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 i5-2430M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.