AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE vs Intel Core i5-2500T

AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3400 MHz / Cores: 2 / Jul 2020
AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE
Intel Core i5-2500T
Intel Socket 1155DESKTOP
2300 MHz / Cores: 4 / Jan 2011
Intel Core i5-2500T

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE
    132%
  • Intel Core i5-2500T
    100%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE
    129%
  • Intel Core i5-2500T
    100%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE
    134%
  • Intel Core i5-2500T
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE

Much higher single threaded performance (around 29% higher), makes a noticeable performance difference in gaming and the majority of applications.
Much higher multi threaded performance (around 34% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).
Around 32% higher average synthetic performance.

Reasons to consider Intel Core i5-2500T

None

AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE

Gaming

HWBench recommends AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE

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


Specifications

Features

AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GEIntel Core i5-2500T
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4A
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
AES
AVX
AVX2
BMI1
BMI2
SHA
F16C
FMA3
AMD64
EVP
AMD-V
SMAP
SMEP
Precision Boost
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
TXT
VT-x
VT-d
AES-NI

Architecture

AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GEIntel Core i5-2500T
ArchitectureAMD Zen+vsIntel_SandyBridge
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4-2933 MHz Dual-channelvsDDR3
CodenameDalivsSandy Bridge
Release DateJul 2020vsJan 2011

Cores

AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GEIntel Core i5-2500T
Cores2vs4
Threads4vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsRadeon Vega 3vsIntel HD 2000

Cache

AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GEIntel Core i5-2500T
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 Silver PRO 3125GEIntel Core i5-2500T
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsIntel Socket 1155
Max Case Temp95°Cvsunknown
PackageµOPGA-1331vsFC-LGA10
Die Sizeunknownvs216mm²
Process12 nmvs32 nm

Performance

AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GEIntel Core i5-2500T
Cpu Frequency3400 MHzvs2300 MHz
Turbo Clocknonevs3300 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
VoltageN/Avsunknown
TDP35 Wvs45 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE
    3740 points
  • Intel Core i5-2500T
    3300 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE
    9125 points
  • Intel Core i5-2500T
    9200 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE (simulated)
    140.8
  • Intel Core i5-2500T (simulated)
    108.81

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE (simulated)
    441.69
  • Intel Core i5-2500T (simulated)
    327.58

points - higher is better