Intel Core i5-4200H vs AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

Core i5-4200H vs Athlon Silver 3050U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-4200H performs better 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 i5-4200H has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-4200H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon Silver 3050U. Also, the Core i5-4200H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Athlon Silver 3050U outputs less heat than Core i5-4200H thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i5-4200H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.