Intel Core i5-3340M 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

1242 points

3% slightly better overall score

1200 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2524 points

2572 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

914 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

864 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

877 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

831 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.39 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

15.05 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1053 points

1350 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

525 points

778 points

48% 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

2.7 GHz

17% slightly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

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

35 W

15 W

133% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

888th of 1,089

902nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Athlon Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 February

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 i5-3340M vs Athlon Silver 3050U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-3340M performs better than the Athlon Silver 3050U. Despite this, the Athlon Silver 3050U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i5-3340M has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-3340M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon Silver 3050U.

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 i5-3340M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.