Intel Core i7-950 vs AMD Athlon Gold 3150U

Core i7-950 vs Athlon Gold 3150U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Athlon Gold 3150U beats the Core i7-950 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-950 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-950 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Athlon Gold 3150U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon Gold 3150U. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-950 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon Gold 3150U. Also, the Core i7-950 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Athlon Gold 3150U outputs less heat than Core i7-950 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 i7-950 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.