C-50: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
C-50 provides poor benchmark performance at 0.16% of a leader's which is a 192-core EPYC 9965.
Contents
Summary
AMD started C-50 sales 4 January 2011. This is an Ontario architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 2 cores and 2 threads, and is based on 40 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 1000 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is FT1 BGA 413-Ball processor with a TDP of 9 Watt. It supports DDR3 Single-channel memory.
Primary details
C-50 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | 3479 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Series | AMD C-Series | |
| Power efficiency | 0.69 | of 100.00 (Apple M4 (8 cores)) |
| Designer | AMD | |
| Architecture codename | Ontario (2011−2012) | |
| Release date | 4 January 2011 (14 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
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 | |
| Boost clock speed | 1 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| L1 cache | 64K (per core) | of 80 KB (EPYC 9965) |
| L2 cache | 512K (per core) | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
| L3 cache | 0 KB | of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X) |
| Chip lithography | 40 nm | of 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
| Die size | 75 mm2 | |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - |
Compatibility
Information on C-50 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.
| Number of CPUs in a configuration | 1 | of 8 (Opteron 842) |
| Socket | FT1 BGA 413-Ball | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 9 Watt | of 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by C-50. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | MMX(+), SSE(1,2,3,3S,4A), AMD-V |
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 C-50's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR3 Single-channel |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into C-50.
| Integrated graphics card | AMD Radeon HD 6250 |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of C-50. 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.
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.
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.
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.
Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core
Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.
Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core
Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.
3DMark06 CPU
3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.
Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core
Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.
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Intel equivalent
According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to C-50 is Core Duo U2400, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 5 positions in our ranking.
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Similar processors
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Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for C-50, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for C-50 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 361 configurations using C-50 in our database.
