Athlon Silver 3050GE vs Ryzen 5 2500U
Aggregate performance score
Ryzen 5 2500U outperforms Athlon Silver 3050GE by a considerable 43% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
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Primary details
Comparing processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.
| Place in the ranking | 1639 | 1921 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Desktop processor |
| Series | AMD Ryzen 5 | no data |
| Power efficiency | 10.42 | 3.13 |
| Designer | AMD | AMD |
| Manufacturer | GlobalFoundries | GlobalFoundries |
| Architecture codename | Raven Ridge (2017−2019) | Dali (2020−2021) |
| Release date | 26 October 2017 (8 years ago) | 21 July 2020 (5 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Ryzen 5 2500U and Athlon Silver 3050GE 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 | 8 | 4 |
| Base clock speed | 2 GHz | 3.4 GHz |
| Boost clock speed | 2 GHz | 3.4 GHz |
| Multiplier | 20 | no data |
| L1 cache | 384 KB | 96 KB (per core) |
| L2 cache | 2 MB | 512 KB (per core) |
| L3 cache | 4 MB (shared) | 4 MB (shared) |
| Chip lithography | 14 nm | 14 nm |
| Die size | 209.78 mm2 | 148 mm2 |
| Maximum case temperature (TCase) | no data | 95 °C |
| Number of transistors | 4950 Million | 3,500 million |
| 64 bit support | + | + |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | + |
| Unlocked multiplier | - | + |
Compatibility
Information on Ryzen 5 2500U and Athlon Silver 3050GE 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 (Uniprocessor) | 1 |
| Socket | FP5 | AM4 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | 35 Watt |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 2500U and Athlon Silver 3050GE. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | XFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT | no data |
| AES-NI | + | + |
| AVX | + | + |
| Precision Boost 2 | + | no data |
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 5 2500U and Athlon Silver 3050GE are enumerated here.
| AMD-V | + | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 5 2500U and Athlon Silver 3050GE. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR4-2400 | DDR4-2933 |
| Maximum memory size | 32 GB | no data |
| Max memory channels | 2 | no data |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 38.397 GB/s | no data |
| ECC memory support | + | - |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.
| Integrated graphics card | AMD Radeon Vega 8 | AMD Radeon Vega 3 |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 5 2500U and Athlon Silver 3050GE.
| PCIe version | 3.0 | 4.0 |
| PCI Express lanes | 12 | no data |
Synthetic benchmarks
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.
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. Other than that, Passmark measures multi-core performance.
Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 3.68 | 2.58 |
| Integrated graphics card | 4.15 | 2.75 |
| Recency | 26 October 2017 | 21 July 2020 |
| Physical cores | 4 | 2 |
| Threads | 8 | 4 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | 35 Watt |
Ryzen 5 2500U has a 42.6% higher aggregate performance score, 50.9% faster integrated GPU, 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads, and 133.3% lower power consumption.
Athlon Silver 3050GE, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years.
The AMD Ryzen 5 2500U is our recommended choice as it beats the AMD Athlon Silver 3050GE in performance tests.
Be aware that Ryzen 5 2500U is a notebook processor while Athlon Silver 3050GE is a desktop one.
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