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AMD Athlon Silver 3050U vs Intel Core 5 processor 120U

Last updated: 2026-06-06

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank ?

AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

Rank ?

Intel Core 5 processor 120U

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 18 %

AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core 5 processor 120U

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 (Raven Ridge)

422

Intel Iris Xe Graphics 80 (Alder Lake)

1,549

More benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	AMD Athlon Silver 3050U	Intel Core 5 processor 120U
Family	AMD Athlon (29)	Intel Core 5 (13)
CPU group	AMD Athlon Silver 3000 (3)	Intel Core processors - Mobile (Series 1) (3)
Architecture	Dali (Zen)	Raptor Lake U
Technology	14 nm	10 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket	FP5	BGA 1744
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	AMD Athlon Silver 3050U	Intel Core 5 processor 120U
CPU Cores / Threads	2 / 2	10 / 12
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x 2.30 - 3.20 GHz	2x Redwood Cove 1.40 - 5.00 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		8x Crestmont 0.90 - 3.80 GHz
L2-Cache		12.00 MB
L3-Cache	4.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	AMD Athlon Silver 3050U	Intel Core 5 processor 120U
GPU name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 (Raven Ridge)	Intel Iris Xe Graphics 80 (Alder Lake)
GPU frequency	1.10 GHz	0.35 - 1.25 GHz
CUs / Shader	3 / 192	80 / 640
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	4
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB	32 GB
Technology	14 nm	10 nm
Release date	Q1/2018	Q1/2022

NPU AI performance

Wischen	AMD Athlon Silver 3050U	Intel Core 5 processor 120U
AI hardware		Intel® AI Boost
AI specifications		Intel Deep Learning Boost (Intel DL Boost)
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	AMD Athlon Silver 3050U	Intel Core 5 processor 120U
Memory	DDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s) DDR5-5200 (83.2 GB/s) LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s) DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	32 GB	96 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	Yes	No
PCIe	3.0 x 8	4.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth	7.9 GB/s	39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	AMD Athlon Silver 3050U	Intel Core 5 processor 120U
TDP	15 W	15 W
TDP (PL2)		55 W
TDP up	25 W
TDP down	12 W	12 W
T. junction max.	95 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	AMD Athlon Silver 3050U	Intel Core 5 processor 120U
Chip design	Unknown	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems		Windows 11, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q1/2020	Q1/2024
Release price
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of AMD Athlon Silver 3050U is 2.8 stars (64 ratings), while Intel Core 5 processor 120U has received 4.2 stars (118 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

AMD Athlon Silver 3050U
2C / 2T · 2.30 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core 5 processor 120U
10C / 12T · 1.40 - 5.00 GHz

★★★★★