AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE vs Intel Core i5-8250U

Processor comparisons 24-05-2021

   If you are thinking about choosing a CPU, you will be able to make a choice after reading the full tests AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE vs Intel Core i5-8250U and understand which is better for games or normal use for video editing, streaming, programming, rendering, machine learning. Here is all information from real streaming and video editing tests or many benchmarks. A careful review of all the specifications, to make it easier to understand, is made by the table.
   From the video comparison, you can get the results of joint testing in software tests like VeraCrypt, UserBenchmark, WPrime, Dolphin Emulator, MATLAB, SuperPi, 3DMark, Prime95, Cinebench 23 (20, 15), 7zip, Blender, Furmark, World of Tanks enCore Benchmark, PCMark 10, Handbrake, Blender, PassMark, AIDA64, RealBench, GeekBench 6, 5.2, Gears 5, DaVinci Resolve Studio.
   And how good the CPUs are in games:

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

After reading the results these benchmarks and videos, you already be able to figure out which CPU is better to buy for gaming Intel Core i5-8250U or AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE.

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 PRO 3125GE

51%

Core i5-8250U

51%

Gaming performance
Summary result of all game benchmarks.

Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE

51%

Core i5-8250U

52%

For the maximum in this test, the results of the most powerful processor in the site database are taken. And it is clear that this is a server processor, on which no one will play games. Because this processor costs 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 final table below.
List of other games in which processors were compared: PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG), Half-Life: Alyx, Monster Hunter World, Ghostrunner, NBA 2K20, League of Legends (LOL), Forza Horizon 4, DOTA 2A, Resident Evil 7 Biohazard, Battlefield V, Microsoft Flight Simulator, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Hitman 3, Metro Exodus, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Control, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS GO), Horizon Zero Dawn.

Gaming benchmark

Fortnite	90.1	91.6
Valorant	102.3	104.0
Cyberpunk 2077	57.3	58.3
Apex Legends	96.2	97.8
Call of Duty Warzone	76.8	78.0
Overwatch	82.9	84.3
Red Dead Redemption 2	70.6	71.8
DOOM Eternal	51.2	52.0
Warzone	79.8	81.2
Assassin's Creed	86.0	87.4
Valheim	84.9	86.4

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 amounts of RAM and different video cards. 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 compare it in one assembly with the video card that is installed in your computer.

Power consumption

Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE

92%

Core i5-8250U

199%

To make a final 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 Core i5-8250U is more energy efficient than the Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE as it consumes less power: 35W vs. 15W. Power consumption is especially important for laptops. Also, when choosing a processor cooling system, you need to know its TDP. You need to buy a cooler that has the TDP data specified in the specification was 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, programming, streaming, video rendering or video editing, then first of all you need to pay attention to the performance in multi-threaded mode. In this mode, to reach maximum performance, the processor includes all threads and cores that it has. You will find out this data from the benchmark tables below. Before using the data from these tests, be sure to make sure that the program that you are going to use on your computer can work in multi-threaded mode. Because there are still many programs that use only one core to work, 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 PRO 3125GE	Intel Core i5-8250U
Cinbench 15 Single-core	86	157
Cinbench 15 Multi-core	452	549
Cinbench 20 Single-core	216	348
Cinbench 20 Multi-core	983	1509
Cinbench 23 Single-core	556	897
Cinbench 23 Multi-core	2676	3118

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

	AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE	Intel Core i5-8250U
Single-Core	2087	1990
Multi-Core	4715	6011

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

	AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE	Intel Core i5-8250U
Single-Core	966	896
Multi-Core	2021	3494

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 in the future. The same can be said about overclocking. If the processor can be overclocked, increasing its performance, then it will continue to maintain maximum FPS in the newest games. The economy are obvious! It turns out that you do not need to buy a new CPU to enjoy the games any longer.

	AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE	Intel Core i5-8250U
Announcement date	July 21, 2020	April 01, 2017
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Socket	AM4	FC-BGA1356
Core name	Dali	Kaby Lake R
Architecture	Zen	x86
Generation	1	8
Turbo Frequency	3.4 MHz	3.4 MHz
Frequency	3.4 MHz	1.6 MHz
Cores	2	4
Threads	4	8
Bus rate		4 GT/s
Bit	64	64
Lithography	12 nm	14 nm
Transistors count	1400 millions	1640 millions
Power consumption (TDP)	35 W	15 W
Memory type	DDR4	DDR4-2400, LPDDR3-2133
Max. Memory		32 Gb
Memory Frequency	2667
Memory bandwidth		37.5 GB/s
L1 cache	192KB
L2 cache	1MB
L3 cache	4MB	6 MB
Overclocking	No	Yes
Supports ECC	No	No
Part number	YD3125C6M2OFH

In this comparison block, you should pay attention to the differences in clock speed and the number of cores. Here Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE is 52% better than Core i5-8250U in terms of CPU frequency. Another difference is that Core i5-8250U has 2 more core than Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE. 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 PRO 3125GE is better: 8
The number of parameters for which Intel Core i5-8250U is better: 29
Although it should be realized that all the figures in the table above do not mean that taking them into account you should undividedly trust a simple quantitative comparison. Better to watch the testing video and read the opinion of of people who bought AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE and Intel Core i5-8250U before deciding which of the processors to buy for gaming.

AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE - all data

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

• AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE specs and review.

• Intel Core i5-8250U specs and review.