Intel Core i5-3320M vs AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

Compare Intel Core 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

1205 points

0.42% slightly better overall score

1200 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2406 points

2572 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

892 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

864 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

856 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

831 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

16.58 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

15.05 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1046 points

1350 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

514 points

778 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

2.60 GHz

13% slightly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz

3% slightly higher turbo speed

3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

15 W

133% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.25 MiB

1 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

3 MiB

4 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

900th of 1,089

902nd of 1,089

Family

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Core

Athlon Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

2020 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR4

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-3320M vs Athlon Silver 3050U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon Silver 3050U performs better than the Core i5-3320M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3320M in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5-3320M has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-3320M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon Silver 3050U. In terms of cache, the Athlon Silver 3050U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-3320M. The Athlon Silver 3050U also has slightly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-3320M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.