Athlon Silver 3050U vs Athlon 650

Primary details

Comparing Athlon 650 and Athlon Silver 3050U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking	not rated	1969
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Desktop processor	Laptop
Series	no data	AMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)
Power efficiency	no data	11.86
Architecture codename	Thunderbird (1999−2000)	Dali (Zen) (2020)
Release date	9 August 1999 (25 years ago)	6 January 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$849	no data

Detailed specifications

Athlon 650 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 cores	1 (Single-Core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	1	2
Base clock speed	no data	2.3 GHz
Boost clock speed	0.65 GHz	3.2 GHz
Multiplier	no data	23
L1 cache	128 KB	192 KB
L2 cache	512 KB	1 MB
L3 cache	0 KB	4 MB
Chip lithography	180 nm	14 nm
Die size	184 mm2	no data
Maximum core temperature	no data	95 °C
Maximum case temperature (TCase)	70 °C	no data
Number of transistors	22 million	4500 Million
64 bit support	-	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	+

Compatibility

Information on Athlon 650 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.

Number of CPUs in a configuration	1	no data
Socket	A	FP5
Power consumption (TDP)	48 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon 650 and Athlon Silver 3050U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	no data	MMX, 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	-	+
Precision Boost 2	no data	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon 650 and Athlon Silver 3050U are enumerated here.

AMD-V

-

+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon 650 and Athlon Silver 3050U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR1	DDR4
Maximum memory size	no data	32 GB
Max memory channels	no data	2
Maximum memory bandwidth	no data	38.397 GB/s
ECC memory support	-	+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

N/A

AMD Radeon RX Vega 2

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon 650 and Athlon Silver 3050U.

PCIe version	no data	3.0
PCI Express lanes	no data	12

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	9 August 1999	6 January 2020
Physical cores	1	2
Threads	1	2
Chip lithography	180 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	48 Watt	15 Watt

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