AMD Athlon Gold 3150U vs Intel Core i7-4860EQ

Comparative analysis of AMD Athlon Gold 3150U and Intel Core i7-4860EQ processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Graphics interfaces, Graphics API support, Compatibility, Peripherals, Graphics, Security & Reliability, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon Gold 3150U

• CPU is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 5 month(s) later
• Around 3% higher clock speed: 3.3 GHz vs 3.2 GHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 14 nm vs 22 nm
• 3.1x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 47 Watt

Reasons to consider the Intel Core i7-4860EQ

• 2 more cores, run more applications at once: 4 vs 2
• 4 more threads: 8 vs 4
• Around 5% higher maximum core temperature: 100 °C vs 95 °C
• Around 33% more L1 cache; more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
• 2x more L3 cache, more data can be stored in the L3 cache for quick access later
• Around 1% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1754 vs 1741
• Around 39% better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 5500 vs 3961

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Athlon Gold 3150U
CPU 2: Intel Core i7-4860EQ

PassMark - Single thread mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	1741 1754
PassMark - CPU mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	3961 5500

Compare specifications (specs)