Athlon Silver 3050e vs Steam Deck OLED APU

Place in performance ranking	1272	1886
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU)	AMD Raven Ridge (Ryzen 2000 APU)
Architecture codename	Van Gogh (Custom)	Dali (Zen)
Release date	9 November 2023 (less than a year ago)	1 June 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Steam Deck OLED APU 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 cores	4 (Quad-Core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	84 x 3.6 GHz AMD Zen 2	4
Base clock speed	2.4 GHz	1.4 GHz
Boost clock speed	3.5 GHz	2.8 GHz
L1 cache	256 KB	192 KB
L2 cache	2 MB	1 MB
L3 cache	4 MB	4 MB
Chip lithography	6 nm	14 nm
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	no data	+
Unlocked multiplier	No	No

Compatibility

Information on Steam Deck OLED APU 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.

Socket	no data	FP5
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Steam Deck OLED APU and Athlon Silver 3050e. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	DDR4-3200/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, SME	DDR4-2400 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	+	+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Steam Deck OLED APU and Athlon Silver 3050e. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

DDR4

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon Steam Deck 8CU

AMD Radeon RX Vega 3

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.

Steam Deck OLED APU 4.43
+132%

Athlon Silver 3050e 1.91

Steam Deck OLED APU outperforms Athlon Silver 3050e by 132% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

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%

Steam Deck OLED APU 689
+204%

Athlon Silver 3050e 227

Steam Deck OLED APU outperforms Athlon Silver 3050e by 204% in Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core.

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	4.43	1.91
Recency	9 November 2023	1 June 2020
Physical cores	4	2
Threads	84 x 3.6 GHz AMD Zen 2	4
Chip lithography	6 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	6 Watt