AMD Athlon Gold 3150C vs Intel Pentium Silver A1030

Processor comparisons   12-01-2022
   You may have difficulties with the choice of a processor, you will solve them by reading the detailed tests AMD Athlon Gold 3150C vs Intel Pentium Silver A1030 and understand which is better for games or simple use for video editing, programming, streaming, rendering, machine learning. Here you can find all information from many benchmarks or real video editing and streaming tests. A careful analysis of all the specifications, so that it can be easier to understand, is made by the table.
   From the video comparison, you can get the results of joint testing in special testing software such as Gears 5, Cinebench 23 (20, 15), World of Tanks enCore Benchmark, GeekBench 6, 5.2, Prime95, PCMark 10, UserBenchmark, AIDA64, VeraCrypt, Blender, 7zip, SuperPi, 3DMark, WPrime, Blender, DaVinci Resolve Studio, MATLAB, Furmark, Dolphin Emulator, RealBench, PassMark, Handbrake.
   And how good the processors are in games:

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

After reading the results of joint benchmarks and videos, you already be able to know which processor is better to buy for gaming Intel Pentium Silver A1030 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%

Pentium Silver A1030

51%

Gaming performance
Summary result of all game benchmarks.

Athlon Gold 3150C

51%

Pentium Silver A1030

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 this processor costs several tens of thousands of dollars. Therefore, if you think that the selected CPU has a low game result, just look at the FPS that it produces in real games in the summary table below.
List of less popular games in which CPU comparisons were performed: Forza Horizon 4, Half-Life: Alyx, Control, Resident Evil 7 Biohazard, Metro Exodus, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS GO), Ghostrunner, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG), Horizon Zero Dawn, NBA 2K20, Battlefield V, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Monster Hunter World, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, League of Legends (LOL), Microsoft Flight Simulator, DOTA 2A, Hitman 3.

Gaming benchmark

Fortnite	89.8	89.8
Valorant	102.1	102.0
Cyberpunk 2077	57.2	57.1
Apex Legends	95.9	95.9
Call of Duty Warzone	76.6	76.5
Overwatch	82.7	82.6
Red Dead Redemption 2	70.4	70.4
DOOM Eternal	51.0	51.0
Warzone	79.6	79.6
Assassin's Creed	85.7	85.7
Valheim	84.7	84.7

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 tested computers not only did they have different amounts of RAM and different video cards. But users also tested them at different screen resolutions: FullHD, 2K or 4K. So the game benchmark data is approximate. But all video cards met the average system requirements of games. You will get more accurate information about how powerful the processor will be in games, if you compare it in one assembly with the video card that is installed in your computer.

Power consumption

Athlon Gold 3150C

177%

Pentium Silver A1030

120%

To make a finishing decision 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 Pentium Silver A1030 since it has less power consumption: 15W vs. 15W. Power consumption is particularly important for laptops. Also, when choosing a processor cooling system, it will be useful to know its TDP. It is necessary to calculate so that the TDP data specified in the cooler specification is greater than the TDP of the compared processor.

Software benchmarks

For example you want to use the processor not only for gaming, but also for video rendering or video editing, streaming, programming, machine learning, then the main parameter for you is its performance in multi-threaded mode. In this mode, the CPU uses 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 software you are going to use on your computer supports multi-threaded mode. Since there are still many programs that can use only one core to work, and all the benefit 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 Pentium Silver A1030
Cinbench 15 Single-core	140	88
Cinbench 15 Multi-core	350	294
Cinbench 20 Single-core	208	183
Cinbench 20 Multi-core	761	678
Cinbench 23 Single-core	431	581
Cinbench 23 Multi-core	2071	2150

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

	AMD Athlon Gold 3150C	Intel Pentium Silver A1030
Single-Core	1974	1314
Multi-Core	3650	3477

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

	AMD Athlon Gold 3150C	Intel Pentium Silver A1030
Single-Core	798	543
Multi-Core	1788	1738

Comparison of specifications

In the specification comparison table, the processor release date and overclocking capability will be the most helpful. The later the processor is released, the longer it will last in your computer. And the easier it will be to upgrade the system in the future. The same can be said about overclocking. If the processor can be overclocked, thereby increasing its performance, then it will continue to maintain maximum FPS in new games. The economy are obvious! It turns out that there is no longer a need to buy a new CPU to enjoy the games any longer.

	AMD Athlon Gold 3150C	Intel Pentium Silver A1030
Announcement date	September 22, 2020	January 01, 2020
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Socket	FP5	FCBGA1090
Core name	Dali	Gemini Lake
Architecture	Zen	x86
Generation	1
Turbo Frequency	3.3 MHz	2.7 MHz
Frequency	2.4 MHz	2 MHz
Cores	2	4
Threads	4	4
Bus rate
Bit	64	64
Lithography	14 nm	14 nm
Transistors count	1400 millions	1000 millions
Power consumption (TDP)	15 W	15 W
Memory type	DDR4	DDR4/LPDDR4 upto 2400 MT/s
Max. Memory		8 Gb
Memory Frequency	2400
Memory bandwidth
L1 cache	192KB
L2 cache	1MB
L3 cache	4MB	4 MB
Overclocking	No	No
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 Athlon Gold 3150C is 16% better than Pentium Silver A1030 in terms of CPU frequency. Another difference is that Pentium Silver A1030 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: 21
The number of parameters for which Intel Pentium Silver A1030 is better: 4
Although it should be understood that all the figures in the article above do not mean that taking them into account you should completely trust a simple comparison of these figures. Be sure to watch the video tests and read the reviews of real owners of AMD Athlon Gold 3150C and Intel Pentium Silver A1030 before making a decision 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 Pentium Silver A1030 - all data

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

• Intel Pentium Silver A1030 specs and review.