Athlon Silver 3050e vs Ryzen 5 4500U

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Aggregate performance score

Ryzen 5 4500U
2020
6 cores / 6 threads, 25 Watt
7.07
+270%

Ryzen 5 4500U outperforms Athlon Silver 3050e by a whopping 270% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Ryzen 5 4500U and Athlon Silver 3050e processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance ranking9411886
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU)AMD Raven Ridge (Ryzen 2000 APU)
Architecture codenameRenoir-U (Zen 2)Dali (Zen)
Release date6 January 2020 (4 years ago)1 June 2020 (4 years ago)
Current price$527 no data

Detailed specifications

Ryzen 5 4500U and Athlon Silver 3050e 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 cores6 (Hexa-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads64
Base clock speed2.3 GHz1.4 GHz
Boost clock speed4 GHz2.8 GHz
L1 cache128K (per core)192 KB
L2 cache512K (per core)1 MB
L3 cache11 MB (shared)4 MB
Chip lithography7 nm14 nm
Die size156 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature105 °Cno data
Number of transistors9800 Millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility++
Unlocked multiplierNoNo

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 5 4500U and Athlon Silver 3050e 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 configuration1no data
SocketFP6FP5
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 4500U and Athlon Silver 3050e. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsDDR4-3200/LPDDR4-4266 RAM, PCIe 3, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SMEDDR4-2400 RAM, PCIe 3, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME
AES-NI++
FMA++
AVX++

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 5 4500U and Athlon Silver 3050e are enumerated here.

AMD-V+no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 5 4500U and Athlon Silver 3050e. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4DDR4
Maximum memory size64 GBno data
Maximum memory bandwidth68.27 GB/sno data
ECC memory support-no data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000)AMD Radeon RX Vega 3

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 5 4500U and Athlon Silver 3050e.

PCIe version3.0no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

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. 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.

Ryzen 5 4500U 7.07
+270%
Athlon Silver 3050e 1.91

Ryzen 5 4500U outperforms Athlon Silver 3050e by 270% based on our aggregate benchmark results.


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.

Benchmark coverage: 68%

Ryzen 5 4500U 10938
+271%
Athlon Silver 3050e 2952

Ryzen 5 4500U outperforms Athlon Silver 3050e by 271% in Passmark.

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

Benchmark coverage: 20%

Ryzen 5 4500U 5337
+59.8%
Athlon Silver 3050e 3339

Ryzen 5 4500U outperforms Athlon Silver 3050e by 60% in Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core.

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

Benchmark coverage: 19%

Ryzen 5 4500U 24156
+256%
Athlon Silver 3050e 6780

Ryzen 5 4500U outperforms Athlon Silver 3050e by 256% in Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core.

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

Benchmark coverage: 18%

Ryzen 5 4500U 8.3
+129%
Athlon Silver 3050e 18.99

Athlon Silver 3050e outperforms Ryzen 5 4500U by 129% in wPrime 32.

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

Ryzen 5 4500U 11
+335%
Athlon Silver 3050e 3

Ryzen 5 4500U outperforms Athlon Silver 3050e by 335% in Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core.

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

Benchmark coverage: 15%

Ryzen 5 4500U 892
+294%
Athlon Silver 3050e 227

Ryzen 5 4500U outperforms Athlon Silver 3050e by 294% in Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core.

Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.

Benchmark coverage: 15%

Ryzen 5 4500U 174
+70.6%
Athlon Silver 3050e 102

Ryzen 5 4500U outperforms Athlon Silver 3050e by 71% in Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core.

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R11.5 is an old benchmark by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version loads a single thread with ray tracing to render a glossy room full of crystal spheres and light sources.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

Ryzen 5 4500U 2.03
+72%
Athlon Silver 3050e 1.18

Ryzen 5 4500U outperforms Athlon Silver 3050e by 72% in Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core.

TrueCrypt AES

TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Ryzen 5 4500U 4.9
+277%
Athlon Silver 3050e 1.3

Ryzen 5 4500U outperforms Athlon Silver 3050e by 277% in TrueCrypt AES.

WinRAR 4.0

WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Ryzen 5 4500U 3493
+149%
Athlon Silver 3050e 1403

Ryzen 5 4500U outperforms Athlon Silver 3050e by 149% in WinRAR 4.0.

x264 encoding pass 2

x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.  

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Ryzen 5 4500U 59
+330%
Athlon Silver 3050e 14

Ryzen 5 4500U outperforms Athlon Silver 3050e by 330% in x264 encoding pass 2.

x264 encoding pass 1

x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.  

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Ryzen 5 4500U 210
+200%
Athlon Silver 3050e 70

Ryzen 5 4500U outperforms Athlon Silver 3050e by 200% in x264 encoding pass 1.

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 7.07 1.91
Integrated graphics card 6.26 2.97
Recency 6 January 2020 1 June 2020
Physical cores 6 2
Threads 6 4
Chip lithography 7 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 6 Watt

The Ryzen 5 4500U is our recommended choice as it beats the Athlon Silver 3050e in performance tests.


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