AMD Athlon Silver 3050e vs Intel Core i5-7400

Processor comparisons 17-03-2021

   If there are difficulties with the choice of a CPU, you will solve them by reading the detailed tests AMD Athlon Silver 3050e vs Intel Core i5-7400 and see which is better for games or simple use for streaming, video editing, machine learning, rendering, programming. Here is all information from real video editing and streaming tests or different benchmarks. A step-by-step analysis of all the technical characteristics, so that it can be easier to read, is presented in the form of the table.
   From the video comparison, you can get the results of joint testing in synthetic type tests such as Handbrake, VeraCrypt, 7zip, World of Tanks enCore Benchmark, PCMark 10, 3DMark, Blender, WPrime, RealBench, Blender, Furmark, Gears 5, Cinebench 23 (20, 15), Dolphin Emulator, Prime95, GeekBench 6, 5.2, DaVinci Resolve Studio, UserBenchmark, MATLAB, AIDA64, PassMark, SuperPi.
   Gaming performance of CPUs in:

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

After reading the results of all benchmarks and videos, you already be able to figure out which processor is better to buy for gaming Intel Core i5-7400 or AMD Athlon Silver 3050e.

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 3050e

50%

Core i5-7400

51%

This parameter shows the performance of the processors in single-threaded and multi-threaded mode. In this comparison, Core i5-7400 is 1% better than Athlon Silver 3050e. The data source is several popular tests. More detailed information of the benchmarks is below.

Gaming performance
Summary result of all game benchmarks.

Athlon Silver 3050e

50%

Core i5-7400

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. Therefore, if you think that the selected CPU has a low 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: Monster Hunter World, Control, Ghostrunner, Hitman 3, Forza Horizon 4, Horizon Zero Dawn, Resident Evil 7 Biohazard, League of Legends (LOL), Microsoft Flight Simulator, NBA 2K20, Battlefield V, DOTA 2A, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS GO), Metro Exodus, Half-Life: Alyx, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG), The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

Gaming benchmark

Fortnite	89.3	91.4
Valorant	101.5	103.9
Cyberpunk 2077	56.8	58.2
Apex Legends	95.4	97.6
Call of Duty Warzone	76.1	77.9
Overwatch	82.2	84.1
Red Dead Redemption 2	70.0	71.7
DOOM Eternal	50.8	51.9
Warzone	79.2	81.0
Assassin's Creed	85.3	87.3
Valheim	84.3	86.2

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 comparing 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. 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 3050e

345%

Core i5-7400

49%

To make a finishing resolution on which processor is better, you should also consider the generation of its core. It is clear that the newer the generation, the better the performance of the processor in games and benchmarks, as well as its energy efficiency. In this case the Athlon Silver 3050e is more energy efficient than the Core i5-7400 since it has less power consumption: 6W vs. 65W. Power consumption is especially 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

If you want to use the processor not only for gaming, but also for video editing or video rendering, programming, streaming, machine learning, then first of all you need to pay attention to the performance in multi-threaded mode. In this mode, the processor uses 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 you take into account the data from these tests, be sure to make sure that the software that you are going to use on your computer can work in multi-threaded mode. Since there are still many programs that can use only one core to work, and all the advantages of multi-core mode turns out to be unnecessary.

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

	AMD Athlon Silver 3050e	Intel Core i5-7400
Cinbench 15 Single-core	55	149
Cinbench 15 Multi-core	291	564
Cinbench 20 Single-core	139	345
Cinbench 20 Multi-core	634	1266
Cinbench 23 Single-core	358	820
Cinbench 23 Multi-core	1724	2853

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

	AMD Athlon Silver 3050e	Intel Core i5-7400
Single-Core	1440	2131
Multi-Core	3038	5499

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

	AMD Athlon Silver 3050e	Intel Core i5-7400
Single-Core	622	959
Multi-Core	1302	3349

Comparison of specifications

In the specification comparison table, the processor release date and overclocking capability will be the most useful. The later the processor is released, the longer it will last you. And the easier it will be to upgrade the system later. The same can be said about overclocking. When the processor can be overclocked, thereby increasing its performance, then it will continue to maintain maximum FPS in the newest games. Accordingly, you do not need to buy a new CPU to enjoy the games any longer. The economy are obvious!

	AMD Athlon Silver 3050e	Intel Core i5-7400
Announcement date	January 06, 2020	January 01, 2017
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Socket	FP5	FCLGA1151
Core name	Dali	Kaby Lake
Architecture	Zen	x86
Generation	1	7
Turbo Frequency	2.8 MHz	3.5 MHz
Frequency	1.4 MHz	3 MHz
Cores	2	4
Threads	4	4
Bus rate		8 GT/s
Bit	64	64
Lithography	14 nm	14 nm
Transistors count	1400 millions	2460 millions
Power consumption (TDP)	6 W	65 W
Memory type	DDR4	DDR4-2133/2400, DDR3L-1333/1600 @ 1.35V
Max. Memory		64 Gb
Memory Frequency	2400
Memory bandwidth
L1 cache
L2 cache	1MB
L3 cache	4MB	6 MB
Overclocking	Yes	Yes
Supports ECC	No	No
Part number	YM3050C7T2OFG

In this comparison block, you should pay attention to the differences in clock speed and the number of cores. Here Core i5-7400 is 53% better than Athlon Silver 3050e in terms of CPU frequency. Another difference is that Core i5-7400 has 2 more core than Athlon Silver 3050e. 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 3050e is better: 4
The number of parameters for which Intel Core i5-7400 is better: 29
Although it should be understood that all the figures that you have looked at here do not mean that taking them into account you should entirely trust a simple comparison of these figures. Better to watch benchmarks video and read the opinion of real owners of AMD Athlon Silver 3050e and Intel Core i5-7400 before making a selection which of the CPUs to buy for gaming.

• AMD Athlon Silver 3050e specs and review.

• Intel Core i5-7400 specs and review.