Athlon 5350 CPU Review

Conclusions

There was no surprise in our tests. The A4-7300 and the Celeron G3900 are entry CPUs, but they are part of the main families of their manufacturers. The Athlon 5350, on the other hand, is one of the fastest AMD SoC low-power processors, which means it was designed to be energy-efficient, and not to bring high performance.
Because of this, it clearly doesn’t reach the same performance level of the other CPUs we included in the benchmarks, so we don’t even ran any games: if the A4-7300 and the Celeron G3900 proved to be too slow to run recent games, it is clear the Athlon 5350 is not a good option for a gaming PC.
However, this doesn’t mean it is not a good option in specific situations. First, because the Athlon 5350 has a TDP of only 25 W, less than half of the other two ones. This can mean some money saved on the electricity bill, but also less heating, noise, and infrastructure economy, for example, if you need to connect a lot of computers to UPSs. Besides that, its low consumption makes it easier to be used on ultra-SFF computers.
Besides that, usually AM1 motherboards are more inexpensive than FM2+ and LGA1151 ones, used by the main family CPUs.
So, while the performance of the Athlon 5350 is relatively low, it can be a good deal in situations where you need a small, low-power, low-cost computer, in applications that doesn’t demand high performance.