Athlon Silver 3050U vs Core 2 Quad Q8400

Place in the ranking	2268	1971
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Desktop processor	Laptop
Series	no data	AMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)
Power efficiency	1.30	11.86
Architecture codename	Yorkfield (2007−2009)	Dali (Zen) (2020)
Release date	19 April 2009 (15 years ago)	6 January 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Core 2 Quad Q8400 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	4 (Quad-Core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	4	2
Base clock speed	2.66 GHz	2.3 GHz
Boost clock speed	0.67 GHz	3.2 GHz
Bus rate	1333 MHz	no data
Multiplier	no data	23
L1 cache	64 KB (per core)	192 KB
L2 cache	4 MB (shared)	1 MB
L3 cache	0 KB	4 MB
Chip lithography	45 nm	14 nm
Die size	2x 82 mm²	no data
Maximum core temperature	no data	95 °C
Maximum case temperature (TCase)	71 °C	no data
Number of transistors	456 million	4500 Million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	+
VID voltage range	0.85V-1.3625V	no data

Compatibility

Information on Core 2 Quad Q8400 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	FCLGA775,LGA775	FP5
Power consumption (TDP)	95 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Core 2 Quad Q8400 and Athlon Silver 3050U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	no data	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
Idle States	+	no data
Thermal Monitoring	+	-
Demand Based Switching	-	no data
FSB parity	-	no data
Precision Boost 2	no data	+

Security technologies

Core 2 Quad Q8400 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 Core 2 Quad Q8400 and Athlon Silver 3050U are enumerated here.

AMD-V	-	+
VT-x	+	no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Core 2 Quad Q8400 and Athlon Silver 3050U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR1, DDR2, DDR3	DDR4
Maximum memory size	no data	32 GB
Max memory channels	no data	2
Maximum memory bandwidth	no data	38.397 GB/s
ECC memory support	-	+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

On certain motherboards (Chipset feature)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 2

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Core 2 Quad Q8400 and Athlon Silver 3050U.

PCIe version	2.0	3.0
PCI Express lanes	no data	12

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 Quad Q8400 1.30

Athlon Silver 3050U 1.88
+44.6%

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.

Core 2 Quad Q8400 2067

Athlon Silver 3050U 2993
+44.8%

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.

Core 2 Quad Q8400 328

Athlon Silver 3050U 773
+136%

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.

Core 2 Quad Q8400 896

Athlon Silver 3050U 1344
+50%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	1.30	1.88
Recency	19 April 2009	6 January 2020
Physical cores	4	2
Threads	4	2
Chip lithography	45 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	95 Watt	15 Watt

Core 2 Quad Q8400 has 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads.

Athlon Silver 3050U, on the other hand, has a 44.6% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 10 years, a 221.4% more advanced lithography process, and 533.3% lower power consumption.

The Athlon Silver 3050U is our recommended choice as it beats the Core 2 Quad Q8400 in performance tests.

Note that Core 2 Quad Q8400 is a desktop processor while Athlon Silver 3050U is a notebook one.

Should you still have questions on choice between Core 2 Quad Q8400 and Athlon Silver 3050U, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.