AMD Athlon Gold 3150C vs Intel Core i5-7442EQ. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  AMD Athlon Intel Core i5
• Generation
  4 7
• CPU group
  AMD Athlon Gold 3000 Intel Core i 7000H

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  2.40 GHz 2.10 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.30 GHz 2.90 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Hyperthreading
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal normal

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  AMD Radeon Vega 3 Graphics Intel HD Graphics 630
• GPU frequency
  1.10 GHz 0.30 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 1.10 GHz
• Execution units
  3 24
• Shader
  192 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 64 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  8 9.5
• DirectX Version
  12 12
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2018 Q2/2016

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-7442EQ and AMD Athlon Gold 3150C. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2400 DDR4-2400
• Max. Memory
  32 GB
• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  8 16

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon Gold 3150C and Intel Core i5-7442EQ to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  15 W 25 W
• TDP up
  25 W --
• TDP down
  12 W --
• Tjunction max.
  95 °C --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Athlon Gold 3150C and AMD Athlon Gold 3150C, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L2-Cache
  1.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 6.00 MB
• Architecture
  Dali (Zen) Kaby Lake H
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  FP5 BGA 1440
• Release date
  Q3/2020 Q1/2017