Intel Xeon E5-1603 vs AMD Athlon Gold 3150U

Xeon E5-1603 vs Athlon Gold 3150U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Athlon Gold 3150U beats the Xeon E5-1603 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1603 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-1603 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Athlon Gold 3150U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. The Athlon Gold 3150U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1603 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Xeon E5-1603 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.