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

Compare Intel 6th 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

1184 points

1200 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2342 points

2572 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

881 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

864 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

844 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

831 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

21.68 points

44% significantly higher Blender score

15.05 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2036 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1350 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1001 points

28% 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

2.2 GHz

2.3 GHz

4% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

6% 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

903rd of 1,089

902nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7

Athlon Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

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 i7-6650U vs Athlon Silver 3050U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-6650U performs better than the Athlon Silver 3050U. Despite this, the Athlon Silver 3050U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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.

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.