Athlon Silver 3050U vs Atom N270

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Aggregate performance score

Atom N270
2008
1 core / 2 threads, 2 Watt
0.09
Athlon Silver 3050U
2020
2 cores / 2 threads, 15 Watt
1.88
+1989%

Athlon Silver 3050U outperforms Atom N270 by a whopping 1989% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Atom N270 and Athlon Silver 3050U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking33951986
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel AtomAMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)
Power efficiency3.4111.86
Architecture codenameDiamondVille (2008−2009)Dali (Zen) (2020)
Release date2 April 2008 (16 years ago)6 January 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$44no data

Detailed specifications

Atom N270 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 cores1 (Single-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads22
Base clock speed1.6 GHz2.3 GHz
Boost clock speed0.1 GHz3.2 GHz
Bus typeFSBno data
Bus rate533.33 MT/sno data
Multiplier1223
L1 cache56 KB192 KB
L2 cache512 KB1 MB
L3 cache0 KB4 MB
Chip lithography45 nm14 nm
Die size25.9638 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature90 °C95 °C
Number of transistors47 Million4500 Million
64 bit support-+
Windows 11 compatibility-+
VID voltage range0.9V-1.1625Vno data

Compatibility

Information on Atom N270 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 configuration1 (Uniprocessor)no data
SocketPBGA437FP5
Power consumption (TDP)2.5 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Atom N270 and Athlon Silver 3050U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE, Intel® SSE2, Intel® SSE3, Intel® SSSE3MMX, 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
Idle States-no data
Thermal Monitoring+-
Demand Based Switching-no data
FSB parity-no data
Precision Boost 2no data+

Security technologies

Atom N270 and Athlon Silver 3050U technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-no data
EDB+no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Atom N270 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 N270 and Athlon Silver 3050U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR4
Maximum memory size8 GB32 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
Maximum memory bandwidthno data38.397 GB/s
ECC memory support-+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card-AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 ( - 1100 MHz)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Atom N270 and Athlon Silver 3050U.

PCIe versionno data3.0
PCI Express lanesno data12

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.

Atom N270 0.09
Athlon Silver 3050U 1.88
+1989%

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.

Atom N270 136
Athlon Silver 3050U 2983
+2093%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 0.09 1.88
Recency 2 April 2008 6 January 2020
Physical cores 1 2
Chip lithography 45 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 2 Watt 15 Watt

Atom N270 has 650% lower power consumption.

Athlon Silver 3050U, on the other hand, has a 1988.9% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 11 years, 100% more physical cores, and a 221.4% more advanced lithography process.

The Athlon Silver 3050U is our recommended choice as it beats the Atom N270 in performance tests.


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