Athlon Silver 3050U vs Turion II M500

Place in the ranking	2843	1969
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	AMD Turion II	AMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)
Power efficiency	1.45	11.87
Architecture codename	Caspian (2009)	Dali (Zen) (2020)
Release date	10 September 2009 (15 years ago)	6 January 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Turion II M500 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	2 (Dual-core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	2	2
Base clock speed	no data	2.3 GHz
Boost clock speed	2.2 GHz	3.2 GHz
Bus rate	3600 MHz	no data
Multiplier	no data	23
L1 cache	no data	192 KB
L2 cache	1 MB	1 MB
L3 cache	no data	4 MB
Chip lithography	45 nm	14 nm
Maximum core temperature	no data	95 °C
Number of transistors	no data	4500 Million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	+

Compatibility

Information on Turion II M500 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.

Socket	Socket S1 (s1g3) 638-pin	FP5
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Turion II M500 and Athlon Silver 3050U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD Virtualization	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	-	+
PowerNow	+	-
Precision Boost 2	no data	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Turion II M500 and Athlon Silver 3050U are enumerated here.

AMD-V

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Turion II M500 and Athlon Silver 3050U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	no data	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

no data

AMD Radeon RX Vega 2

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Turion II M500 and Athlon Silver 3050U.

PCIe version	no data	3.0
PCI Express lanes	no data	12

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.54	1.89
Recency	10 September 2009	6 January 2020
Chip lithography	45 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	15 Watt

Athlon Silver 3050U has a 250% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 10 years, a 221.4% more advanced lithography process, and 133.3% lower power consumption.

The Athlon Silver 3050U is our recommended choice as it beats the Turion II M500 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions on choice between Turion II M500 and Athlon Silver 3050U, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.