AMD Athlon Gold 3150U compared to Intel

Price now 661$

Games supported 74%

Price now 446$

Games supported 76%

Contents

General info

Comparing Core i5-6200U and Athlon Gold 3150U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Technical specs

Core i5-6200U and Athlon Gold 3150U basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Compatibility

Information on Core i5-6200U and Athlon Gold 3150U compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Core i5-6200U and Athlon Gold 3150U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Security technologies

Core i5-6200U and Athlon Gold 3150U technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Core i5-6200U and Athlon Gold 3150U are enumerated here.

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Core i5-6200U and Athlon Gold 3150U. Depending on the motherboards, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Core i5-6200U and Athlon Gold 3150U integrated GPUs.

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Core i5-6200U and Athlon Gold 3150U integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Core i5-6200U and Athlon Gold 3150U integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Core i5-6200U and Athlon Gold 3150U.

Benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.

Overall score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Athlon Gold 3150U 3.95

+32.6%

• Passmark
• Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core
• Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core
• 3DMark06 CPU
• wPrime 32
• Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core
• Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core
• Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core
• Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core
• TrueCrypt AES
• WinRAR 4.0
• x264 encoding pass 2
• x264 encoding pass 1

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Benchmark coverage: 69%

Athlon Gold 3150U 3986

+32.6%

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

Benchmark coverage: 20%

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

Benchmark coverage: 20%

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

Benchmark coverage: 19%

Athlon Gold 3150U 4189

+10.6%

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

Benchmark coverage: 18%

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

Athlon Gold 3150U 4

+24.7%

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core (sometimes called Multi-Thread) is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

Athlon Gold 3150U 352

+21.8%

Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

Athlon Gold 3150U 117

+1.7%

Cinebench R11.5 is an old benchmark by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version loads a single thread with ray tracing to render a glossy room full of crystal spheres and light sources.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

Athlon Gold 3150U 1.4

+3%

TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Athlon Gold 3150U 2

+29.4%

WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.

Benchmark coverage: 12%

x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.  

Benchmark coverage: 12%

Athlon Gold 3150U 22

+18.3%

x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.  

Benchmark coverage: 12%

Athlon Gold 3150U 107

+6.6%

Gaming performance

Advantages and disadvantages

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, Technical City recommends

AMD Athlon Gold 3150U

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Competitors of Core i5-6200U by AMD

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Core i5-6200U from AMD is Phenom II X3 N870, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 1 position in our rating.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to Core i5-6200U:

Competitors of Athlon Gold 3150U by Intel

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Athlon Gold 3150U from Intel is Core i3-10110U, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 3 positions in our rating.

Here are some closest Intel rivals to Athlon Gold 3150U:

AMD Athlon Gold 3150U 100

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