Intel Core i5-6200U vs AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

Core i5-6200U vs Athlon Silver 3050U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon Silver 3050U performs better than the Core i5-6200U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6200U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i5-6200U has more threads. In terms of clock speed, the Core i5-6200U and Athlon Silver 3050U are identical in this regard.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-6200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.