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#290632 24-Nov-2021 12:44

Here's a range of CPU's the N3050 is terrible, the 8550U is good.

how would the 3150U and 3050U compare - is the thread count of the 8550U more important than the clockspeed, I see the 3150U has higher clockspeed but lower turbo speed and half the cores & threads..

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/AMD-Athlon-Gold-3150U-vs-AMD-Athlon-Silver-3050U-vs-Intel-i7-8550U-vs-Intel-Celeron-N3050/3777vs3720vs3064vs2541

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#2818473 24-Nov-2021 13:54

What are you trying to achieve?

The Celeron is most often used in Chromebooks these days. Good bang for buck while sipping at a small battery.

The Athlon's I almost never see, and guess these are used in budget consumer laptops (which I avoid like the plague for our clients). Now that SSDs are common, these budget laptops are less awful than they used to be.

The i7-8550U shows as faster (but not massively faster) in single threaded tests, but as most OS have lots going on in the background a multi-thread CPU makes a noticable performance difference. This processor is now 3-4 generations behind, so I'd expect any machine it is installed in to be relatively cheap.

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#2819038 25-Nov-2021 10:47

turbo speed is the absolute max .

You may never get the full turbo speed , depends on laptop design, heat etc etc
And some turbo speeds are for a single core only .

From intel
"Note that depending on its situation, a given CPU may not always reach its Max Turbo Frequency."
https://www.intel.sg/content/www/xa/en/gaming/resources/turbo-boost.html

I guess if manufacturers show how low the Laptop CPU base speed actually is, it looks like a spec from last century .

You cant just look at the CPU . You also need to look at the hardware its running on/with .
Generally , I'd expect a new Celeron laptop to be cheap & nasty compared to a new i7 laptop .

Weve sold a few modern Celeron laptops . They are dirt cheap. They are OK , honestly better than I expected .

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#2819040 25-Nov-2021 10:57

Don't use cpubenchmark website to compare performance!

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#2819044 25-Nov-2021 11:03

@mentalinc why not?

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#2820439 28-Nov-2021 09:54

Dynamic:

What are you trying to achieve?

The Celeron is most often used in Chromebooks these days. Good bang for buck while sipping at a small battery.

The Athlon's I almost never see, and guess these are used in budget consumer laptops (which I avoid like the plague for our clients). Now that SSDs are common, these budget laptops are less awful than they used to be.

The i7-8550U shows as faster (but not massively faster) in single threaded tests, but as most OS have lots going on in the background a multi-thread CPU makes a noticable performance difference. This processor is now 3-4 generations behind, so I'd expect any machine it is installed in to be relatively cheap.

I'm looking for something affordable for an older child to watch youtube, do some approve online stuff but also play basic entry level games.