Intel Core i7-4790 vs AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

Core i7-4790 vs Athlon Silver 3050U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4790 beats the Athlon Silver 3050U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon Silver 3050U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-4790 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Athlon Silver 3050U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon Silver 3050U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4790 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Athlon Silver 3050U. Also, the Core i7-4790 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Athlon Silver 3050U outputs less heat than Core i7-4790 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i7-4790 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i7-4790 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.