Athlon Silver 3050U vs EPYC 9684X

Primary details

Comparing EPYC 9684X and Athlon Silver 3050U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking	4	1966
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Server	Laptop
Series	no data	AMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)
Power efficiency	17.99	11.91
Architecture codename	Genoa-X (2023)	Dali (Zen) (2020)
Release date	13 June 2023 (1 year ago)	6 January 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$14,756	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

Detailed specifications

EPYC 9684X 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	96	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	192	2
Base clock speed	2.55 GHz	2.3 GHz
Boost clock speed	3.7 GHz	3.2 GHz
Multiplier	no data	23
L1 cache	64 KB (per core)	192 KB
L2 cache	1 MB (per core)	1 MB
L3 cache	1152 MB (shared)	4 MB
Chip lithography	5 nm	14 nm
Die size	12x 72 mm2	no data
Maximum core temperature	no data	95 °C
Number of transistors	135,240 million	4500 Million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	no data	+

Compatibility

Information on EPYC 9684X 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	2	no data
Socket	SP5	FP5
Power consumption (TDP)	400 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by EPYC 9684X 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	+	+
Precision Boost 2	+	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by EPYC 9684X and Athlon Silver 3050U are enumerated here.

AMD-V

+

+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by EPYC 9684X and Athlon Silver 3050U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR5	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

N/A

AMD Radeon RX Vega 2

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by EPYC 9684X and Athlon Silver 3050U.

PCIe version	5.0	3.0
PCI Express lanes	128	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.

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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.

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Pros & cons summary

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Performance score	78.91	1.96
Recency	13 June 2023	6 January 2020
Physical cores	96	2
Threads	192	2
Chip lithography	5 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	400 Watt	15 Watt

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