Athlon Silver 3050U vs Atom D2500
Aggregate performance score
Athlon Silver 3050U outperforms Atom D2500 by a whopping 1093% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
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Primary details
Comparing processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.
| Place in the ranking | 3591 | 2274 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Series | Intel Atom | AMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU) |
| Power efficiency | 1.50 | 11.95 |
| Designer | Intel | AMD |
| Manufacturer | Intel | GlobalFoundries |
| Architecture codename | Cedarview (2011−2012) | Dali (Zen) (2020) |
| Release date | 1 November 2011 (14 years ago) | 6 January 2020 (5 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Atom D2500 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 | 2 (Dual-core) | 2 (Dual-core) |
| Threads | 2 | 2 |
| Base clock speed | 1.86 GHz | 2.2 GHz |
| Boost clock speed | 1.87 GHz | 3.2 GHz |
| Multiplier | no data | 23 |
| L1 cache | 64 KB (per core) | 96 KB (per core) |
| L2 cache | 512K (per core) | 512 KB (per core) |
| L3 cache | 0 KB | 4 MB (shared) |
| Chip lithography | 32 nm | 14 nm |
| Die size | 66 mm2 | 148 mm2 |
| Maximum core temperature | 100 °C | 95 °C |
| Number of transistors | 176 million | 3,500 million |
| 64 bit support | + | + |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | + |
Compatibility
Information on Atom D2500 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 | 1 |
| Socket | FCBGA559 | FP5 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 10 Watt | 15 Watt |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Atom D2500 and Athlon Silver 3050U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | Intel® SSE2, Intel® SSE3, Intel® SSSE3 | 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 | - | + |
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | - | no data |
| Turbo Boost Technology | - | no data |
| Hyper-Threading Technology | + | no data |
| Demand Based Switching | - | no data |
| PAE | 36 Bit | no data |
| AMT | - | no data |
| HD Audio | + | no data |
| Precision Boost 2 | no data | + |
Security technologies
Atom D2500 and Athlon Silver 3050U technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.
| EDB | + | no data |
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Atom D2500 and Athlon Silver 3050U are enumerated here.
| AMD-V | - | + |
| VT-d | - | no data |
| VT-x | - | no data |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Atom D2500 and Athlon Silver 3050U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR3 | DDR4 |
| Maximum memory size | 4 GB | 32 GB |
| Max memory channels | 1 | 2 |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 6.4 GB/s | 38.397 GB/s |
| ECC memory support | - | + |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.
| Integrated graphics card | Intel GMA | AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 ( - 1100 MHz) |
Graphics interfaces
Available interfaces and connections of Atom D2500 and Athlon Silver 3050U integrated GPUs.
| Number of displays supported | 2 | no data |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Atom D2500 and Athlon Silver 3050U.
| PCIe version | no data | 3.0 |
| PCI Express lanes | 4 | 12 |
| Total number of SATA ports | 2 | no data |
| Number of USB ports | 8 | no data |
Synthetic benchmarks
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.
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. Other than that, Passmark measures multi-core performance.
Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 0.14 | 1.67 |
| Recency | 1 November 2011 | 6 January 2020 |
| Chip lithography | 32 nm | 14 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 10 Watt | 15 Watt |
Atom D2500 has 50% lower power consumption.
Athlon Silver 3050U, on the other hand, has a 1092.9% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 8 years, and a 128.6% more advanced lithography process.
The AMD Athlon Silver 3050U is our recommended choice as it beats the Intel Atom D2500 in performance tests.
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