AMD Athlon Gold 3150C vs Intel Core i5-2400

Processor comparisons 12-01-2022

   You may have difficulties with the choice of a CPU, you will solve them by reading the comprehensive tests AMD Athlon Gold 3150C vs Intel Core i5-2400 and see which is better for games or simple use for rendering, video editing, programming, streaming, machine learning. Here is useful information from real streaming and video editing tests or various benchmarks. A careful review of all the technical characteristics, to make it easier to understand, is made by the table.
   From the comparison video, you can get the results of joint testing in software tests like Prime95, World of Tanks enCore Benchmark, SuperPi, RealBench, GeekBench 6, 5.2, Gears 5, Furmark, WPrime, 7zip, 3DMark, PCMark 10, MATLAB, UserBenchmark, Dolphin Emulator, AIDA64, Blender, DaVinci Resolve Studio, VeraCrypt, PassMark, Cinebench 23 (20, 15), Handbrake, Blender.
   Gaming performance of processors in:

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands
Fortnite
Grand Theft Auto V
Call of Duty: Warzone and Modern Warfare
Rainbow Six Siege
Red Dead Redemption 2
Apex Legends
Death Stranding
Cyberpunk 2077
Last Man Standing
Valorant
Assassin's Creed Valhalla
Borderlands 3
Overwatch
Watch Dogs Legion
Fallout 76
Halo Infinite
DOOM: Eternal
Valheim

After looking at the data these benchmarks and videos, you can already make an informed decision about which CPU is better to buy for gaming Intel Core i5-2400 or AMD Athlon Gold 3150C.

Summary benchmark results

As a percentage of the maximum value based on a sample from the entire base of all processors
Processor Benchmark

Athlon Gold 3150C

51%

Core i5-2400

51%

Gaming performance
Summary result of all game benchmarks.

Athlon Gold 3150C

51%

Core i5-2400

51%

The maximum result in this parameter is 100 percent, which is the performance of the most powerful processor currently available. And of course, this is a server processor, on which no one will play games. Because the cost of this processor reaches several tens of thousands of dollars. And if it seems to you that the selected CPU has a low game result, look at the FPS that it produces in real games in the final table below.
List of other games in which CPU comparisons were performed: Battlefield V, Ghostrunner, Half-Life: Alyx, NBA 2K20, Resident Evil 7 Biohazard, Microsoft Flight Simulator, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG), Control, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS GO), The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, DOTA 2A, Monster Hunter World, Metro Exodus, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Hitman 3, Forza Horizon 4, Horizon Zero Dawn, League of Legends (LOL).

Gaming benchmark

Fortnite	89.8	90.5
Valorant	102.1	102.9
Cyberpunk 2077	57.2	57.6
Apex Legends	95.9	96.7
Call of Duty Warzone	76.6	77.2
Overwatch	82.7	83.3
Red Dead Redemption 2	70.4	71.0
DOOM Eternal	51.0	51.4
Warzone	79.6	80.2
Assassin's Creed	85.7	86.4
Valheim	84.7	85.4

The numbers in this table indicate the maximum FPS that was received on the device with the corresponding processor. Depending on the configuration of the computer (RAM size and Video Card) and graphics quality settings (Ultra, Medium, Normal), the results may differ quite significantly. We recommend that you better study the results of the Cinebench, GeekBench and Passmark becnmarks.
The computers participating in the comparisons not only were the equipped with different video cards and different amounts of RAM. But users also tested them at different screen resolutions: 2K, FullHD or 4K. Therefore, the game benchmark data is approximate. But all video cards met the average system requirements of games. To be sure exactly how much performance the processor will be in games, if you get acquainted with the benchmarks that are made with the same video card that is installed in your computer.

Power consumption

Athlon Gold 3150C

177%

Core i5-2400

26%

To make a finishing resolution on which processor is better, you should also consider the generation of its core. The newer the processor generation, the better its performance in games and benchmarks, as well as its energy efficiency. In this case the Athlon Gold 3150C is more energy efficient than the Core i5-2400 as it consumes less power: 15W vs. 95W. Power consumption is particularly important for laptops. And TDP should be taken into account when choosing a processor cooling system. It is necessary to count so that the TDP data specified in the cooler specification is greater than the TDP of the compared processor.

Software benchmarks

If you want to use the processor not only for gaming, but also for machine learning, streaming, video rendering or video editing, programming, then first of all you need to pay attention to the performance in multi-threaded mode. In this mode, the processor turns on all threads and cores that it has to the maximum to achieve maximum efficiency. You will learn this data from the benchmark tables below. Before you take into account the data from these tests, be sure to check whether the program you are going to use on your computer supports multi-threaded mode. Since there are still many programs that use only one core to run, and all the advantages of multi-core mode are unused.

Cinebench 23, 20 an 15
The results of this benchmark show Single-threaded and Multi-threaded CPU performance

	AMD Athlon Gold 3150C	Intel Core i5-2400
Cinbench 15 Single-core	140	104
Cinbench 15 Multi-core	350	378
Cinbench 20 Single-core	208	267
Cinbench 20 Multi-core	761	941
Cinbench 23 Single-core	431	635
Cinbench 23 Multi-core	2071	2350

Passmark
This popular benchmark displays Multi-threaded and Single-threaded processor performance

	AMD Athlon Gold 3150C	Intel Core i5-2400
Single-Core	1974	1589
Multi-Core	3650	3799

GeekBench 6, 5.2
This benchmark shows Multi-threaded and Single-threaded processor performance

	AMD Athlon Gold 3150C	Intel Core i5-2400
Single-Core	798	756
Multi-Core	1788	2483

Comparison of specifications

In the specification comparison table, the most helpful will be the the possibility of overclocking it and release date of the processor. The newer the processor, the longer it will last you. And the easier it will be to upgrade the system later. The same can be said about overclocking. If the processor can be overclocked, thereby increasing its performance, then it will still be able to produce maximum FPS in the newest games. The savings are obvious! Accordingly, you do not need to buy a new CPU to enjoy the games any longer.

	AMD Athlon Gold 3150C	Intel Core i5-2400
Announcement date	September 22, 2020	October 01, 2010
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Socket	FP5	LGA1155
Core name	Dali	Sandy Bridge
Architecture	Zen	x86
Generation	1	2
Turbo Frequency	3.3 MHz	3.4 MHz
Frequency	2.4 MHz	3.1 MHz
Cores	2	4
Threads	4	4
Bus rate		5 GT/s
Bit	64	64
Lithography	14 nm	32 nm
Transistors count	1400 millions	2480 millions
Power consumption (TDP)	15 W	95 W
Memory type	DDR4	DDR3 1066/1333
Max. Memory		32 Gb
Memory Frequency	2400
Memory bandwidth		21 GB/s
L1 cache	192KB
L2 cache	1MB
L3 cache	4MB	6 MB
Overclocking	No	Yes
Supports ECC	No	No
Part number	YM315CC4T2OFG

In this comparison block, you should pay attention to the differences in clock speed and the number of cores. Here Core i5-2400 is 22% better than Athlon Gold 3150C in terms of CPU frequency. Another difference is that Core i5-2400 has 2 more core than Athlon Gold 3150C. Also keep in mind that high CPU frequency affects battery life through power consumption (relevant for laptops).

Result:
The number of parameters for which AMD Athlon Gold 3150C is better: 9
The number of parameters for which Intel Core i5-2400 is better: 28
However, it should be understood that the summary data in the table above do not mean that taking them into account you should entirely trust a simple comparison of these numbers. Be sure to watch the testing video and read the reviews of real owners of AMD Athlon Gold 3150C and Intel Core i5-2400 before making a choice which processor to buy for gaming and which not.

AMD Athlon Gold 3150C - all data

• Cinebench r15 score
• Cinebench r20 score
• Cinebench r23 score
• GeekBench 6, 5.2 score

• AMD Athlon Gold 3150C specs and review.

• Intel Core i5-2400 specs and review.