Xeon Silver 4309Y vs Athlon Silver 3050U

Place in the ranking	1989	642
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Server
Series	AMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)	no data
Power efficiency	11.86	10.91
Architecture codename	Dali (Zen) (2020)	Ice Lake-SP (2021)
Release date	6 January 2020 (4 years ago)	6 April 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Athlon Silver 3050U and Xeon Silver 4309Y 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	2 (Dual-core)	8 (Octa-Core)
Threads	2	16
Base clock speed	2.3 GHz	2.8 GHz
Boost clock speed	3.2 GHz	3.6 GHz
Multiplier	23	no data
L1 cache	192 KB	64K (per core)
L2 cache	1 MB	1 MB (per core)
L3 cache	4 MB	12 MB (shared)
Chip lithography	14 nm	10 nm
Maximum core temperature	95 °C	no data
Maximum case temperature (TCase)	no data	76 °C
Number of transistors	4500 Million	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	+	+

Compatibility

Information on Athlon Silver 3050U and Xeon Silver 4309Y 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	no data	2
Socket	FP5	FCLGA4189
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	105 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon Silver 3050U and Xeon Silver 4309Y. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	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	Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512
AES-NI	+	+
FMA	+	-
AVX	+	+
vPro	no data	+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	no data	+
Speed Shift	no data	+
Turbo Boost Technology	no data	2.0
Hyper-Threading Technology	no data	+
TSX	-	+
Precision Boost 2	+	no data
Deep Learning Boost	-	+

Security technologies

Athlon Silver 3050U and Xeon Silver 4309Y technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT	no data	+
EDB	no data	+
SGX	no data	Yes with Intel® SPS

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon Silver 3050U and Xeon Silver 4309Y are enumerated here.

AMD-V	+	-
VT-d	no data	+
VT-x	no data	+
EPT	no data	+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon Silver 3050U and Xeon Silver 4309Y. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR4	DDR4-2667
Maximum memory size	32 GB	6 TB
Max memory channels	2	8
Maximum memory bandwidth	38.397 GB/s	no data
ECC memory support	+	+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 ( - 1100 MHz)

no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon Silver 3050U and Xeon Silver 4309Y.

PCIe version	3.0	4.0
PCI Express lanes	12	64

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score 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.

Athlon Silver 3050U 1.88

Xeon Silver 4309Y 12.11
+544%

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.

Athlon Silver 3050U 2982

Xeon Silver 4309Y 19237
+545%

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.

Athlon Silver 3050U 774

Xeon Silver 4309Y 1413
+82.6%

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.

Athlon Silver 3050U 1347

Xeon Silver 4309Y 7365
+447%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	1.88	12.11
Recency	6 January 2020	6 April 2021
Physical cores	2	8
Threads	2	16
Chip lithography	14 nm	10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	105 Watt

Athlon Silver 3050U has 600% lower power consumption.

Xeon Silver 4309Y, on the other hand, has a 544.1% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 1 year, 300% more physical cores and 700% more threads, and a 40% more advanced lithography process.

The Xeon Silver 4309Y is our recommended choice as it beats the Athlon Silver 3050U in performance tests.

Be aware that Athlon Silver 3050U is a notebook processor while Xeon Silver 4309Y is a server/workstation one.

Should you still have questions on choice between Athlon Silver 3050U and Xeon Silver 4309Y, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.