Athlon Silver 3050U vs Pentium M 725
Aggregate performance score
Athlon Silver 3050U outperforms Pentium M 725 by a whopping 944% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
Primary details
Comparing Pentium M 725 and Athlon Silver 3050U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.
| Place in the ranking | 3268 | 1986 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Series | Pentium M | AMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU) |
| Power efficiency | 0.81 | 11.86 |
| Architecture codename | Dothan (2004−2005) | Dali (Zen) (2020) |
| Release date | 23 June 2004 (20 years ago) | 6 January 2020 (4 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Pentium M 725 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 | 1 (Single-Core) | 2 (Dual-core) |
| Threads | 1 | 2 |
| Base clock speed | 1.6 GHz | 2.3 GHz |
| Boost clock speed | 1.6 GHz | 3.2 GHz |
| Bus rate | 400 MHz | no data |
| Multiplier | no data | 23 |
| L1 cache | 32 KB | 192 KB |
| L2 cache | 2 MB | 1 MB |
| L3 cache | 0 KB | 4 MB |
| Chip lithography | 90 nm | 14 nm |
| Die size | 87 mm2 | no data |
| Maximum core temperature | 100 °C | 95 °C |
| Number of transistors | 144 million | 4500 Million |
| 64 bit support | - | + |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | + |
| VID voltage range | 0.988V-1.34V | no data |
Compatibility
Information on Pentium M 725 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 | PPGA478 | FP5 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 7.5 Watt | 15 Watt |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium M 725 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 M 725 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 M 725 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 Pentium M 725 and Athlon Silver 3050U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR2 | 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 ( - 1100 MHz) |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium M 725 and Athlon Silver 3050U.
| PCIe version | no data | 3.0 |
| PCI Express lanes | no data | 12 |
Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 0.18 | 1.88 |
| Recency | 23 June 2004 | 6 January 2020 |
| Physical cores | 1 | 2 |
| Threads | 1 | 2 |
| Chip lithography | 90 nm | 14 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 7 Watt | 15 Watt |
Pentium M 725 has 114.3% lower power consumption.
Athlon Silver 3050U, on the other hand, has a 944.4% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 15 years, 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads, and a 542.9% more advanced lithography process.
The Athlon Silver 3050U is our recommended choice as it beats the Pentium M 725 in performance tests.
Should you still have questions on choice between Pentium M 725 and Athlon Silver 3050U, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.
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