AMD Athlon Silver 3050U: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Athlon Silver 3050U sales 7 January 2020. This is a Dali (Zen) architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 2 cores and 2 threads, and is based on 14 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3200 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is FP5 processor with a TDP of 15 Watt. It supports DDR4 memory.
It provides poor benchmark performance at 2.37% of a leader's which is AMD EPYC 9654.
General info
Athlon Silver 3050U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in performance ranking | 1719 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Series | AMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU) | |
| Architecture codename | Dali (Zen) | |
| Release date | 7 January 2020 (3 years old) | |
| Current price | $471 | of 15710 (Xeon Platinum 8276L) |
Technical specs
Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
| Physical cores | 2 (Dual-core) | |
| Threads | 2 | |
| Base clock speed | 2.3 GHz | of 4.7 (FX-9590) |
| Boost clock speed | 3.2 GHz | of 6 (Core i9-13900KS) |
| L1 cache | 192 KB | of 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core) |
| L2 cache | 1 MB | of 36 (Apple M2 Max) |
| L3 cache | 4 MB | of 768 (EPYC 7373X) |
| Chip lithography | 14 nm | of 4 (Ryzen 9 7940HS) |
| Maximum core temperature | 95 °C | of 110 (Atom x7-E3950) |
| Number of transistors | 4500 Million | of 9900000 (Ryzen 5 7645HX) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | + |
Compatibility
Information on Athlon Silver 3050U compatibility with other computer components and devices: 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.
| Socket | FP5 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | of 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Athlon Silver 3050U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | DDR4-2400 RAM, PCIe 3, 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 | + |
Virtualization technologies
Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.
| AMD-V | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Athlon Silver 3050U's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR4 | of 5600 (Ryzen 9 7940HS) |
| Maximum memory size | 32 GB | of 786 (Xeon E5-2670 v3) |
| Max memory channels | 2 | of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221) |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 38.397 GB/s | of 460.8 (EPYC 9124) |
| ECC memory support | + |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into Athlon Silver 3050U.
| Integrated graphics card | AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.
| PCIe version | 3.0 | of 5 (Core i9-12900K) |
| PCI Express lanes | 12 | of 128 (EPYC 7551P) |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Athlon Silver 3050U. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.
Benchmark coverage: 68%
GeekBench 5 Single-Core
GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.
Benchmark coverage: 41%
GeekBench 5 Multi-Core
GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.
Benchmark coverage: 41%
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Relative perfomance
Overall Athlon Silver 3050U performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook CPUs.
Intel equivalent
According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Athlon Silver 3050U is Core i5-4308U, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 1 position in our ranking.
Here are some closest Intel rivals to Athlon Silver 3050U:
Similar processors
Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Athlon Silver 3050U, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for Athlon Silver 3050U in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 18514 configurations based on Athlon Silver 3050U in our database.
