Athlon Silver 3050U vs Athlon 64 TF-20

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Primary details

Comparing Athlon 64 TF-20 and Athlon Silver 3050U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated1966
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD Athlon 64AMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)
Power efficiencyno data11.91
Architecture codenameSherman (2009)Dali (Zen) (2020)
Release date1 May 2009 (15 years ago)6 January 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Athlon 64 TF-20 and Athlon Silver 3050U basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores1 (Single-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads12
Base clock speedno data2.3 GHz
Boost clock speed1.6 GHz3.2 GHz
Bus rate667 MHzno data
Multiplierno data23
L1 cache0.1 MB192 KB
L2 cache512 KB1 MB
L3 cacheno data4 MB
Chip lithography65 nm14 nm
Maximum core temperature95 °C95 °C
Number of transistorsno data4500 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on Athlon 64 TF-20 and Athlon Silver 3050U compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

SocketS1g1FP5
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon 64 TF-20 and Athlon Silver 3050U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsMMX, 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, AMD64, Enhanced Virus ProtectionMMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME
AES-NI-+
FMA-+
AVX-+
VirusProtect+-
Precision Boost 2no data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon 64 TF-20 and Athlon Silver 3050U are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon 64 TF-20 and Athlon Silver 3050U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR4
Maximum memory sizeno data32 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
Maximum memory bandwidthno data38.397 GB/s
ECC memory support-+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataAMD Radeon RX Vega 2

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon 64 TF-20 and Athlon Silver 3050U.

PCIe versionno data3.0
PCI Express lanesno data12

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 May 2009 6 January 2020
Physical cores 1 2
Threads 1 2
Chip lithography 65 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 15 Watt

Athlon Silver 3050U has an age advantage of 10 years, 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads, a 364.3% more advanced lithography process, and 66.7% lower power consumption.

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