Intel Core i7-8500Y vs AMD Athlon Silver 3050e

Compare Intel 8th 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

684 points
687 points
0.44% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1267 points
1472 points
16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

517 points
3% slightly better multitasking score
499 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

492 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score
480 points

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Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.5 GHz
7% slightly higher clock speed
1.40 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
49% significantly higher turbo speed
2.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

5 W
20% slightly lower TDP
6 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,037th of 1,089
1,035th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7
Athlon Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February
2020 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1866
DDR4

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-8500Y vs Athlon Silver 3050e specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon Silver 3050e is faster than the Core i7-8500Y. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8500Y in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8500Y has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon Silver 3050e.

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 i7-8500Y has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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