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

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i5 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

1121 points

1200 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2225 points

2572 points

15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

833 points

864 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

799 points

831 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.84 points

25% slightly higher Blender score

15.05 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1716 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1350 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

876 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

778 points

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

2.5 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.1 GHz

3.2 GHz

3% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

37 W

15 W

146% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

918th of 1,089

902nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i5

Athlon Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 November

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 i5-4200M vs Athlon Silver 3050U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-4200M beats the Athlon Silver 3050U in overall performance. 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 i5-4200M has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-4200M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon Silver 3050U.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-4200M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.