Athlon Silver 3050U vs Ryzen AI 9 HX 375
Aggregate performance score
Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 outperforms Athlon Silver 3050U by a whopping 971% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
Primary details
Comparing Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 and Athlon Silver 3050U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.
| Place in the ranking | 298 | 2046 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Series | AMD Strix Point (Zen 5/5c, Ryzen AI 3/5/7/9) | AMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU) |
| Power efficiency | 67.76 | 11.81 |
| Designer | AMD | AMD |
| Architecture codename | Strix Point-HX (Zen 5) (2024) | Dali (Zen) (2020) |
| Release date | July 2024 (recently) | 6 January 2020 (5 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 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 | 12 (Dodeca-Core) | 2 (Dual-core) |
| Threads | 24 | 2 |
| Base clock speed | 2 GHz | 2.3 GHz |
| Boost clock speed | 5.1 GHz | 3.2 GHz |
| Multiplier | no data | 23 |
| L1 cache | 80 KB (per core) | 192 KB |
| L2 cache | 1 MB (per core) | 1 MB |
| L3 cache | 16 MB | 4 MB |
| Chip lithography | 4 nm | 14 nm |
| Die size | 233 mm2 | no data |
| Maximum core temperature | 100 °C | 95 °C |
| Number of transistors | no data | 4500 Million |
| 64 bit support | + | + |
| Windows 11 compatibility | no data | + |
Compatibility
Information on Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 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 | FP8 | FP5 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 28 Watt | 15 Watt |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 and Athlon Silver 3050U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | USB 4, XDNA 2 NPU (55 TOPS), SMT, AES, AVX, AVX2, AVX512, FMA3, MMX (+), SHA, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4A | 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 Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 and Athlon Silver 3050U are enumerated here.
| AMD-V | + | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 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 | AMD Radeon 890M ( - 2900 MHz) | AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 ( - 1100 MHz) |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 and Athlon Silver 3050U.
| PCIe version | 4.0 | 3.0 |
| PCI Express lanes | 16 | 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.
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.
Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core
Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 19.92 | 1.86 |
| Physical cores | 12 | 2 |
| Threads | 24 | 2 |
| Chip lithography | 4 nm | 14 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 28 Watt | 15 Watt |
Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 has a 971% higher aggregate performance score, 500% more physical cores and 1100% more threads, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.
Athlon Silver 3050U, on the other hand, has 86.7% lower power consumption.
The AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 is our recommended choice as it beats the AMD Athlon Silver 3050U in performance tests.
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