Intel Core i7-6650U vs AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

Core i7-6650U vs Athlon Silver 3050U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon Silver 3050U performs better than the Core i7-6650U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6650U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-6650U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon Silver 3050U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6650U. Despite this, the Core i7-6650U 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.

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 i7-6650U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.