Intel Core i7-5500U vs AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

Compare Intel 5th Generation Core i7 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

1149 points

1200 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2264 points

2572 points

13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

853 points

864 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

817 points

831 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.15 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

15.05 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1695 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1350 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

881 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

778 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

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

128 KiB

192 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB

1 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

Identical

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

912th of 1,089

902nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

5th Generation Core i7

Athlon Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 February

2020 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Core i7-5500U vs Athlon Silver 3050U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon Silver 3050U is faster than the Core i7-5500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-5500U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-5500U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-5500U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon Silver 3050U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Athlon Silver 3050U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-5500U. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 i7-5500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.