AMD Athlon 5150 vs Intel Core i7-4600U

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AMD Athlon 5150 CPU1 vs CPU2 Intel Core i7-4600U
AMD Athlon 5150 Intel Core i7-4600U

CPU comparison

AMD Athlon 5150 or Intel Core i7-4600U - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results.

The AMD Athlon 5150 has 4 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 1.60 GHz. Up to GB of memory is supported in 1 memory channels. The AMD Athlon 5150 was released in Q2/2014.

The Intel Core i7-4600U has 2 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.30 GHz. The CPU supports up to 16 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The Intel Core i7-4600U was released in Q3/2013.
AMD Athlon (29) Family Intel Core i7 (298)
AMD Athlon 5000 (2) CPU group Intel Core i 4000U (26)
3 Generation 4
Kabini (Jaguar) Architecture Haswell U
Desktop / Server Segment Mobile
-- Predecessor --
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The AMD Athlon 5150 is a 4 core processor with a clock frequency of 1.60 GHz. The Intel Core i7-4600U has 2 CPU cores with a clock frequency of 2.10 GHz (3.30 GHz).

AMD Athlon 5150 Characteristic Intel Core i7-4600U
4 Cores 2
4 Threads 4
normal Core architecture normal
No Hyperthreading Yes
Yes Overclocking ? No
1.60 GHz Frequency 2.10 GHz
-- Turbo Frequency (1 Core) 3.30 GHz
-- Turbo Frequency (All Cores) 3.30 GHz

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

AMD Athlon 5150 Characteristic Intel Core i7-4600U
-- AI hardware --
-- AI specifications --

Internal Graphics

The integrated graphics unit of a processor is not only responsible for the pure image output on the system, but can also significantly increase the efficiency of the system with the support of modern video codecs.

AMD Radeon HD 8400 GPU Intel HD Graphics 4400
0.60 GHz GPU frequency 0.20 GHz
-- GPU (Turbo) 1.10 GHz
5 GPU Generation 7.5
28 nm Technology 22 nm
2 Max. displays 3
2 Compute units 20
128 Shader 160
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
2 GB Max. GPU Memory 2 GB
11.1 DirectX Version 11.1

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

AMD Radeon HD 8400 GPU Intel HD Graphics 4400
No Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) No
No Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) No
Decode Codec h264 Decode / Encode
No Codec VP9 No
No Codec VP8 No
No Codec AV1 No
Decode Codec AVC Decode / Encode
Decode Codec VC-1 Decode
Decode / Encode Codec JPEG Decode

Memory & PCIe

The AMD Athlon 5150 supports a maximum of GB of memory in 1 memory channels. The Intel Core i7-4600U can connect up to 16 GB of memory in 2 memory channels.

AMD Athlon 5150 Characteristic Intel Core i7-4600U
DDR3L-1600 Memory DDR3L-1600
Max. Memory 16 GB
1 (Single Channel) Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
12.8 GB/s Max. Bandwidth 25.6 GB/s
No ECC No
-- L2 Cache --
2.00 MB L3 Cache 4.00 MB
-- PCIe version 2.0
-- PCIe lanes 12
-- PCIe Bandwidth 6.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of a processor specifies the required cooling solution. The AMD Athlon 5150 has a TDP of 25 W, that of the Intel Core i7-4600U is 15 W.

AMD Athlon 5150 Characteristic Intel Core i7-4600U
25 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) 15 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
-- TDP down --
-- Tjunction max. --

Technical details

The AMD Athlon 5150 has a 2.00 MB cache, while the Intel Core i7-4600U cache has a total of 4.00 MB.

AMD Athlon 5150 Characteristic Intel Core i7-4600U
28 nm Technology 22 nm
Unknown Chip design Monolithic
x86-64 (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX ISA extensions SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
AM1 Socket BGA 1168
AMD-V Virtualization VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
Yes AES-NI Yes
Windows 10, Linux Operating systems Windows 10, Linux
Q2/2014 Release date Q3/2013
47 $ Release price --
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 4 CPU benchmarks
AMD Athlon 5150 (25%)
Intel Core i7-4600U (100%)
⌀ Multi core performance in 5 CPU benchmarks
AMD Athlon 5150 (46%)
Intel Core i7-4600U (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
AMD Athlon 5150 AMD Athlon 5150
4C 4T @ 1.60 GHz
207 (25%)
Intel Core i7-4600U Intel Core i7-4600U
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
829 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
AMD Athlon 5150 AMD Athlon 5150
4C 4T @ 1.60 GHz
754 (55%)
Intel Core i7-4600U Intel Core i7-4600U
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
1372 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
AMD Athlon 5150 AMD Athlon 5150
4C 4T @ 1.60 GHz
189 (20%)
Intel Core i7-4600U Intel Core i7-4600U
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
950 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
AMD Athlon 5150 AMD Athlon 5150
4C 4T @ 1.60 GHz
583 (34%)
Intel Core i7-4600U Intel Core i7-4600U
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
1735 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
AMD Athlon 5150 AMD Athlon 5150
4C 4T @ 1.60 GHz
74 (26%)
Intel Core i7-4600U Intel Core i7-4600U
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
280 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
AMD Athlon 5150 AMD Athlon 5150
4C 4T @ 1.60 GHz
260 (50%)
Intel Core i7-4600U Intel Core i7-4600U
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
522 (100%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
AMD Athlon 5150 AMD Athlon 5150
AMD Radeon HD 8400 @ 0.60 GHz
154 (44%)
Intel Core i7-4600U Intel Core i7-4600U
Intel HD Graphics 4400 @ 1.10 GHz
352 (100%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
AMD Athlon 5150 AMD Athlon 5150
4C 4T @ 1.60 GHz
1376 (51%)
Intel Core i7-4600U Intel Core i7-4600U
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
2702 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
AMD Athlon 5150 AMD Athlon 5150
4C 4T @ 1.60 GHz
33 (28%)
Intel Core i7-4600U Intel Core i7-4600U
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
120 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
AMD Athlon 5150 AMD Athlon 5150
4C 4T @ 1.60 GHz
122 (42%)
Intel Core i7-4600U Intel Core i7-4600U
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
291 (100%)

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)

Blender is a free 3D graphics software for rendering (creating) 3D bodies, which can also be textured and animated in the software. The Blender benchmark creates predefined scenes and measures the time (s) required for the entire scene. The shorter the time required, the better. We selected bmw27 as the benchmark scene.
AMD Athlon 5150 AMD Athlon 5150
4C 4T @ 1.60 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i7-4600U Intel Core i7-4600U
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
1442.5 (100%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
AMD Athlon 5150 AMD Athlon 5150
4C 4T @ 1.60 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i7-4600U Intel Core i7-4600U
2C 4T @ 2.10 GHz
801 (100%)

Devices using this processor

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