Athlon Silver 3050e vs Core 2 Duo T8300

Place in performance ranking	2404	1886
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	Intel Core 2 Duo	AMD Raven Ridge (Ryzen 2000 APU)
Architecture codename	Penryn (2008−2011)	Dali (Zen)
Release date	10 January 2008 (16 years ago)	1 June 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$241	no data
Current price	$106 (0.4x MSRP)	no data

Detailed specifications

Core 2 Duo T8300 and Athlon Silver 3050e 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	4
Base clock speed	2.4 GHz	1.4 GHz
Boost clock speed	2.4 GHz	2.8 GHz
Bus support	800 MHz	no data
L1 cache	no data	192 KB
L2 cache	3 MB	1 MB
L3 cache	3 MB L2 Cache	4 MB
Chip lithography	45 nm	14 nm
Die size	107 mm²	no data
Maximum core temperature	105 °C	no data
Number of transistors	410 Million	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	+
Unlocked multiplier	No	No
VID voltage range	1V-1.25V	no data

Compatibility

Information on Core 2 Duo T8300 and Athlon Silver 3050e 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.

Socket	BGA479,PGA478	FP5
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Core 2 Duo T8300 and Athlon Silver 3050e. 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, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME
AES-NI	no data	+
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
Demand Based Switching	-	no data
FSB parity	-	no data
Status	Discontinued	no data

Security technologies

Core 2 Duo T8300 and Athlon Silver 3050e 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 Core 2 Duo T8300 and Athlon Silver 3050e are enumerated here.

VT-x

no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Core 2 Duo T8300 and Athlon Silver 3050e. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

no data

DDR4

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

no data

AMD Radeon RX Vega 3

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.

Core 2 Duo T8300 0.95

Athlon Silver 3050e 1.91
+101%

Athlon Silver 3050e outperforms Core 2 Duo T8300 by 101% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 68%

Core 2 Duo T8300 1472

Athlon Silver 3050e 2952
+101%

Athlon Silver 3050e outperforms Core 2 Duo T8300 by 101% in Passmark.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 42%

Core 2 Duo T8300 300

Athlon Silver 3050e 692
+131%

Athlon Silver 3050e outperforms Core 2 Duo T8300 by 131% in GeekBench 5 Single-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.

Benchmark coverage: 42%

Core 2 Duo T8300 470

Athlon Silver 3050e 1340
+185%

Athlon Silver 3050e outperforms Core 2 Duo T8300 by 185% in GeekBench 5 Multi-Core.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 20%

Core 2 Duo T8300 2626

Athlon Silver 3050e 3339
+27.2%

Athlon Silver 3050e outperforms Core 2 Duo T8300 by 27% in Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 19%

Core 2 Duo T8300 4837

Athlon Silver 3050e 6780
+40.2%

Athlon Silver 3050e outperforms Core 2 Duo T8300 by 40% in Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core.