AMD Athlon 3000G vs Intel Core i5-8250U

AMD Athlon 3000G
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3500 MHz / Cores: 2 / Nov 2019
AMD Athlon 3000G
Intel Core i5-8250U
Intel BGA1356MOBILE
1600 MHz / Cores: 4 / Sep 2017
Intel Core i5-8250U

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Athlon 3000G
    100%
  • Intel Core i5-8250U
    118%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Athlon 3000G
    100%
  • Intel Core i5-8250U
    105%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Athlon 3000G
    100%
  • Intel Core i5-8250U
    131%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Athlon 3000G

This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).

Reasons to consider Intel Core i5-8250U

5% higher single threaded performance.
Much higher multi threaded performance (around 31% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
Around 18% higher average synthetic performance.

Intel Core i5-8250U

Gaming

HWBench recommends Intel Core i5-8250U

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

Intel Core i5-8250U

Productivity

HWBench recommends Intel Core i5-8250U

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

AMD Athlon 3000GIntel Core i5-8250U
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4A
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
AES
AVX
AVX2
BMI1
BMI2
SHA
F16C
FMA3
AMD64
EVP
AMD-V
SMAP
SMEP
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
VT-x
VT-d
AES-NI
TSX
TXT
CLMUL
Boost 2.0

Architecture

AMD Athlon 3000GIntel Core i5-8250U
ArchitectureAMD ZenvsIntel_Kabylake
MarketDesktopvsMobile
Memory SupportDDR4 Dual-channelvsDDR4-2400, LPDDR3-2133
CodenameZenvsKaby Lake
Release DateNov 2019vsSep 2017

Cores

AMD Athlon 3000GIntel Core i5-8250U
Cores2vs4
Threads4vs8
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsRadeon Vega 3vsIntel UHD 620

Cache

AMD Athlon 3000GIntel Core i5-8250U
L1 Cache96K (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512K (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache4MB (shared)vs6144 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Athlon 3000GIntel Core i5-8250U
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsIntel BGA1356
Max Case TempN/Avsunknown
PackageµPGAvs FC-BGA1356
Die Size148mm²vsunknown
Process14 nmvs14 nm

Performance

AMD Athlon 3000GIntel Core i5-8250U
Cpu Frequency3500 MHzvs1600 MHz
Turbo Clocknonevs3400 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
VoltageN/Avsunknown
TDP35 Wvs15 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon 3000G
    3850 points
  • Intel Core i5-8250U
    4080 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon 3000G
    9394 points
  • Intel Core i5-8250U
    9216 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Athlon 3000G (simulated)
    138.21
  • Intel Core i5-8250U
    146

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD Athlon 3000G (simulated)
    398.61
  • Intel Core i5-8250U
    523

points - higher is better