AMD Phenom II X4 B50 vs AMD Athlon Gold 3150U

Phenom II X4 B50 vs Athlon Gold 3150U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Athlon Gold 3150U beats the Phenom II X4 B50 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 B50 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X4 B50 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Athlon Gold 3150U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 B50 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon Gold 3150U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 B50 has significantly more L2 cache than the Athlon Gold 3150U. The Phenom II X4 B50 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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. For instance, the Phenom II X4 B50 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.