Intel Core i5-4210M vs AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

Core i5-4210M vs Athlon Silver 3050U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-4210M 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 i5-4210M has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-4210M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon Silver 3050U. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Athlon Silver 3050U outputs less heat than Core i5-4210M thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i5-4210M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.