Intel Core i7-3520M vs AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

Core i7-3520M vs Athlon Silver 3050U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3520M is faster than the Athlon Silver 3050U. Despite this, the Athlon Silver 3050U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-3520M has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3520M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon Silver 3050U. Also, the Core i7-3520M has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Athlon Silver 3050U outputs less heat than Core i7-3520M 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 i7-3520M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.