Athlon Silver 3050U vs i3-8120

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Primary details

Comparing Core i3-8120 and Athlon Silver 3050U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

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Market segmentDesktop processorLaptop
SeriesIntel Core i3AMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)
Architecture codenameCoffee Lake (2017−2019)Dali (Zen) (2020)
Release date1 September 2018 (6 years ago)6 January 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Core i3-8120 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 cores4 (Quad-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads42
Base clock speed3.7 GHz2.3 GHz
Boost clock speed3.7 GHz3.2 GHz
Bus typeDMI 3.0no data
Bus rate4 × 8 GT/sno data
Multiplierno data23
L1 cache256 KB192 KB
L2 cache1 MB1 MB
L3 cache6 MB (shared)4 MB
Chip lithography14 nm14 nm
Die size126 mm2no data
Maximum core temperatureno data95 °C
Maximum case temperature (TCase)72 °Cno data
Number of transistorsno data4500 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on Core i3-8120 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
Socket1151FP5
Power consumption (TDP)51 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Core i3-8120 and Athlon Silver 3050U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataMMX, 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
Precision Boost 2no data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Core i3-8120 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 Core i3-8120 and Athlon Silver 3050U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4 Dual-channelDDR4
Maximum memory size64 GB32 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
Maximum memory bandwidth38.397 GB/s38.397 GB/s
ECC memory support-+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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Intel UHD Graphics 630AMD Radeon RX Vega 2

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Core i3-8120 and Athlon Silver 3050U.

PCIe version3.03.0
PCI Express lanesno data12

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 2018 6 January 2020
Physical cores 4 2
Threads 4 2
Power consumption (TDP) 51 Watt 15 Watt

i3-8120 has 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads.

Athlon Silver 3050U, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and 240% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Core i3-8120 and Athlon Silver 3050U. We've got no test results to judge.

Note that Core i3-8120 is a desktop processor while Athlon Silver 3050U is a notebook one.


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