Intel Core i5-7200U vs AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

Core i5-7200U vs Athlon Silver 3050U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-7200U performs better than the Athlon Silver 3050U. Despite this, the Athlon Silver 3050U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i5-7200U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-7200U 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 i5-7200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.