Athlon Silver 3050U vs Celeron N2830

Primary details

Comparing Celeron N2830 and Athlon Silver 3050U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance ranking	not rated	1874
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	Intel Celeron	AMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)
Architecture codename	Bay Trail-M (2013−2014)	Dali (Zen)
Release date	23 February 2014 (10 years ago)	7 January 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$107	no data
Current price	$234 (2.2x MSRP)	$471

Detailed specifications

Celeron N2830 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	2.16 GHz	2.3 GHz
Boost clock speed	2.41 GHz	3.2 GHz
L1 cache	56K (per core)	192 KB
L2 cache	512K (per core)	1 MB
L3 cache	0 KB	4 MB
Chip lithography	22 nm	14 nm
Maximum core temperature	100 °C	95 °C
Number of transistors	no data	4500 Million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	+
Unlocked multiplier	No	No

Compatibility

Information on Celeron N2830 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	no data
Socket	FCBGA1170	FP5
Power consumption (TDP)	7.5 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Celeron N2830 and Athlon Silver 3050U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	no data	DDR4-2400 RAM, PCIe 3, 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	no data	+
AVX	no data	+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	+	no data
Turbo Boost Technology	-	no data
Hyper-Threading Technology	-	no data
Idle States	+	no data
SIPP	-	no data
Smart Connect	+	no data
Status	Discontinued	no data
RST	-	no data

Security technologies

Celeron N2830 and Athlon Silver 3050U technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

EDB	+	no data
Secure Key	+	no data
Identity Protection	-	no data
Anti-Theft	-	no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Celeron N2830 and Athlon Silver 3050U are enumerated here.

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

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Celeron N2830 and Athlon Silver 3050U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR3	DDR4
Maximum memory size	8 GB	32 GB
Max memory channels	2	2
Maximum memory bandwidth	no data	38.397 GB/s
ECC memory support	no data	+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card	Intel® HD Graphics for Intel Atom® Processor Z3700 Series	AMD Radeon RX Vega 2
Quick Sync Video	+	no data
Graphics max frequency	750 MHz	no data

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Celeron N2830 and Athlon Silver 3050U integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported

2

no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Celeron N2830 and Athlon Silver 3050U.

PCIe version	2.0	3.0
PCI Express lanes	4	12
USB revision	3.0 and 2.0	no data
Total number of SATA ports	2	no data
Number of USB ports	5	no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	23 February 2014	7 January 2020
Chip lithography	22 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	7 Watt	15 Watt

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