AMD Athlon Silver 3050C vs Intel Pentium N4200E

Processor comparisons   17-07-2021
   If there are difficulties with the choice of a CPU, you will solve them by reading the detailed tests AMD Athlon Silver 3050C vs Intel Pentium N4200E and understand which is better for games or normal use for machine learning, programming, video editing, streaming, rendering. Here is useful information from different benchmarks or real streaming and video editing tests. A careful analysis of all the specifications, so that it can be easier to understand, is made by the table.
   From the comparison video, you can get the results of joint testing in software tests like WPrime, Blender, Cinebench 23 (20, 15), MATLAB, 3DMark, Gears 5, GeekBench 6, 5.2, Handbrake, PCMark 10, 7zip, PassMark, Prime95, RealBench, DaVinci Resolve Studio, Blender, Dolphin Emulator, UserBenchmark, World of Tanks enCore Benchmark, Furmark, SuperPi, AIDA64, VeraCrypt.
   And how good the CPUs are in games:

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

After reading the results of joint benchmarks and videos, you can already make an briefed decision about which CPU is better to buy for gaming Intel Pentium N4200E or AMD Athlon Silver 3050C.

Summary benchmark results

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

Athlon Silver 3050C

50%

Pentium N4200E

50%

Gaming performance
Summary result of all game benchmarks.

Athlon Silver 3050C

50%

Pentium N4200E

50%

The maximum result in this parameter is 100 percent, which is the performance of the most powerful processor at the moment. 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 small game result, look at the FPS that it produces in real games in the summary table below.
List of other games in which CPU comparisons were performed: Microsoft Flight Simulator, NBA 2K20, Resident Evil 7 Biohazard, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS GO), PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG), Control, Monster Hunter World, DOTA 2A, Ghostrunner, Battlefield V, Hitman 3, League of Legends (LOL), Half-Life: Alyx, Metro Exodus, Horizon Zero Dawn, Forza Horizon 4, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

Gaming benchmark

Fortnite	89.6	89.3
Valorant	101.8	101.5
Cyberpunk 2077	57.0	56.8
Apex Legends	95.7	95.4
Call of Duty Warzone	76.3	76.1
Overwatch	82.4	82.2
Red Dead Redemption 2	70.2	70.0
DOOM Eternal	50.9	50.8
Warzone	79.4	79.2
Assassin's Creed	85.5	85.3
Valheim	84.5	84.3

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 video cards and different amounts of RAM. 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. To be sure exactly how much performance 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 Silver 3050C

180%

Pentium N4200E

218%

To make a final 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 Pentium N4200E is more energy efficient than the Athlon Silver 3050C as it consumes less power: 15W vs. 6W. Power consumption is especially important for laptops. And TDP should be taken into account when choosing a processor cooling system. 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 machine learning, streaming, video editing or video rendering, programming, then the main parameter for you is its performance in multi-threaded mode. In this mode, the processor turns on all cores and threads that it has to the maximum to reach maximum performance. You will learn this data from the benchmark tables below. Before using 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 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 Silver 3050C	Intel Pentium N4200E
Cinbench 15 Single-core	124	51
Cinbench 15 Multi-core	312	186
Cinbench 20 Single-core	185	115
Cinbench 20 Multi-core	679	378
Cinbench 23 Single-core	384	288
Cinbench 23 Multi-core	1848	1060

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

	AMD Athlon Silver 3050C	Intel Pentium N4200E
Single-Core	1762	873
Multi-Core	3258	2146

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

	AMD Athlon Silver 3050C	Intel Pentium N4200E
Single-Core	810	393
Multi-Core	1525	1303

Comparison of specifications

In the specification comparison table, the processor release date and overclocking capability will be the most helpful. 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 even in new games. It turns out that there is no longer a need to buy a new CPU to enjoy the games any longer. The savings are obvious!

	AMD Athlon Silver 3050C	Intel Pentium N4200E
Announcement date	September 22, 2020	October 01, 2016
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Socket	FP5	FCBGA1296
Core name	Dali	Apollo Lake
Architecture	Zen	x86
Generation	1	6
Turbo Frequency	3.2 MHz	2.5 MHz
Frequency	2.3 MHz	1.1 MHz
Cores	2	4
Threads	2	4
Bus rate
Bit	64	64
Lithography	14 nm	14 nm
Transistors count	1400 millions	13 millions
Power consumption (TDP)	15 W	6 W
Memory type	DDR4	DDR3L/LPDDR3 up to 1866 MT/s LPDDR4 up to 2400 MT/s
Max. Memory		8 Gb
Memory Frequency	2400
Memory bandwidth
L1 cache	192KB
L2 cache	1MB
L3 cache	4MB	2 MB
Overclocking	No	No
Supports ECC	No	No
Part number	YM305CC4T2OFG

In this comparison block, you should pay attention to the differences in clock speed and the number of cores. Here Athlon Silver 3050C is 52% better than Pentium N4200E in terms of CPU frequency. Another difference is that Pentium N4200E has 2 more core than Athlon Silver 3050C. 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 Silver 3050C is better: 29
The number of parameters for which Intel Pentium N4200E is better: 5
Although it should be realized that all the figures in the table above do not mean that you should be guided entirely by them and trust a simple comparison of these figures. Better to watch the testing video and read the reviews of real owners of AMD Athlon Silver 3050C and Intel Pentium N4200E before deciding which of the processors to buy for gaming.

AMD Athlon Silver 3050C - all data

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

• AMD Athlon Silver 3050C specs and review.

Intel Pentium N4200E - all data

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

• Intel Pentium N4200E specs and review.