Athlon Silver 3050U vs Pentium D 915
Primary details
Comparing Pentium D 915 and Athlon Silver 3050U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | 1966 |
| 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 | no data | 11.91 |
| Architecture codename | Presler (2005−2007) | Dali (Zen) (2020) |
| Release date | 23 July 2006 (18 years ago) | 6 January 2020 (4 years ago) |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $74 | no data |
Detailed specifications
Pentium D 915 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 | 2.8 GHz | 2.3 GHz |
| Boost clock speed | 2.8 GHz | 3.2 GHz |
| Multiplier | no data | 23 |
| L1 cache | 16 KB (per core) | 192 KB |
| L2 cache | 2 MB (per die) | 1 MB |
| L3 cache | 0 KB | 4 MB |
| Chip lithography | 65 nm | 14 nm |
| Die size | 2x 81 mm2 | no data |
| Maximum core temperature | no data | 95 °C |
| Maximum case temperature (TCase) | 63 °C | no data |
| Number of transistors | 376 million | 4500 Million |
| 64 bit support | + | + |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | + |
| VID voltage range | 1.2V-1.3375V | no data |
Compatibility
Information on Pentium D 915 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 | LGA775,PLGA775 | FP5 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 95 Watt | 15 Watt |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium D 915 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 |
| Demand Based Switching | - | no data |
| PAE | 32 Bit | no data |
| FSB parity | - | no data |
| Precision Boost 2 | no data | + |
Security technologies
Pentium D 915 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 Pentium D 915 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 Pentium D 915 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 Pentium D 915 and Athlon Silver 3050U.
| PCIe version | no data | 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.
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.
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 23 July 2006 | 6 January 2020 |
| Chip lithography | 65 nm | 14 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 95 Watt | 15 Watt |
Athlon Silver 3050U has an age advantage of 13 years, a 364.3% more advanced lithography process, and 533.3% lower power consumption.
We couldn't decide between Pentium D 915 and Athlon Silver 3050U. We've got no test results to judge.
Note that Pentium D 915 is a desktop processor while Athlon Silver 3050U is a notebook one.
Should you still have questions on choice between Pentium D 915 and Athlon Silver 3050U, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.
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