Intel Core i5-6300U vs AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

Compare Intel 6th 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

1069 points

1200 points

12% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2091 points

2572 points

23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

801 points

864 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

769 points

831 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

20.45 points

35% slightly higher Blender score

15.05 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

2.4 GHz

4% slightly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3 GHz

3.2 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

Identical

15 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

929th of 1,089

902nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5

Athlon Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2020 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR4

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-6300U vs Athlon Silver 3050U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon Silver 3050U is faster than the Core i5-6300U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6300U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i5-6300U has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-6300U 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 i5-6300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.