Intel Core i5-7300U vs AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

Compare Intel 7th 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

1153 points

1200 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2228 points

2572 points

15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

867 points

0.35% slightly better multitasking score

864 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

833 points

0.24% slightly better heavy workload score

831 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

24.58 points

63% significantly 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

2.6 GHz

13% slightly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

9% slightly higher turbo speed

3.2 GHz

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

910th of 1,089

902nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i5

Athlon Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

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 i5-7300U vs Athlon Silver 3050U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon Silver 3050U is faster than the Core i5-7300U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7300U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i5-7300U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-7300U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon Silver 3050U. Also, the Core i5-7300U has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i5-7300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.