Ultra 9 285 vs Athlon Silver 3050U

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Primary details

Comparing Athlon Silver 3050U and Core Ultra 9 285 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking1987not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopDesktop processor
SeriesAMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)no data
Power efficiency11.86no data
Architecture codenameDali (Zen) (2020)Arrow Lake-S (2024−2025)
Release date6 January 2020 (4 years ago)January 2025

Detailed specifications

Athlon Silver 3050U and Core Ultra 9 285 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 cores2 (Dual-core)24 (Tetracosa-Core)
Threads224
Base clock speed2.3 GHz2.5 GHz
Boost clock speed3.2 GHz5.6 GHz
Multiplier23no data
L1 cache192 KB112 KB (per core)
L2 cache1 MB3 MB (per core)
L3 cache4 MB36 MB (shared)
Chip lithography14 nm3 nm
Die sizeno data243 mm2
Maximum core temperature95 °Cno data
Number of transistors4500 Million17,800 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility+no data

Compatibility

Information on Athlon Silver 3050U and Core Ultra 9 285 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 configurationno data1
SocketFP51851
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt125 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon Silver 3050U and Core Ultra 9 285. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsMMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SMEno data
AES-NI++
FMA+-
AVX++
vProno data+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
TSX-+
Precision Boost 2+no data

Security technologies

Athlon Silver 3050U and Core Ultra 9 285 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon Silver 3050U and Core Ultra 9 285 are enumerated here.

AMD-V+-
VT-dno data+
VT-xno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon Silver 3050U and Core Ultra 9 285. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4DDR5 Depends on motherboard
Maximum memory size32 GBno data
Max memory channels2no data
Maximum memory bandwidth38.397 GB/sno data
ECC memory support+-

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardAMD Radeon RX Vega 2 ( - 1100 MHz)Arc Xe2 Graphics 64EU

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon Silver 3050U and Core Ultra 9 285.

PCIe version3.05.0
PCI Express lanes1220

Pros & cons summary


Physical cores 2 24
Threads 2 24
Chip lithography 14 nm 3 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 125 Watt

Athlon Silver 3050U has 733.3% lower power consumption.

Ultra 9 285, on the other hand, has 1100% more physical cores and 1100% more threads, and a 366.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Athlon Silver 3050U and Core Ultra 9 285. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Athlon Silver 3050U is a notebook processor while Core Ultra 9 285 is a desktop one.


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