Athlon Silver 3050e vs Xeon E5-2667 v3

Place in the ranking	932	1986
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Server	Laptop
Series	no data	AMD Raven Ridge (Ryzen 2000 APU)
Power efficiency	5.59	29.18
Architecture codename	Haswell-EP (2014−2015)	Dali (Zen) (2020)
Release date	8 September 2014 (10 years ago)	1 June 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Xeon E5-2667 v3 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	8 (Octa-Core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	16	4
Base clock speed	3.2 GHz	1.4 GHz
Boost clock speed	3.6 GHz	2.8 GHz
Bus rate	9.6 GT/s	no data
L1 cache	64K (per core)	192 KB
L2 cache	256K (per core)	1 MB
L3 cache	20 MB (shared)	4 MB
Chip lithography	22 nm	14 nm
Die size	356 mm²	no data
Maximum core temperature	78 °C	no data
Number of transistors	2,600 million	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	+

Compatibility

Information on Xeon E5-2667 v3 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 configuration	2	no data
Socket	FCLGA2011	FP5
Power consumption (TDP)	135 Watt	6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon E5-2667 v3 and Athlon Silver 3050e. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	Intel® AVX2	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	+	+
vPro	+	no data
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	+	no data
Turbo Boost Technology	2.0	no data
Hyper-Threading Technology	+	no data
Idle States	+	no data
Thermal Monitoring	+	-
Flex Memory Access	-	no data
Demand Based Switching	+	no data
PAE	46 Bit	no data

Security technologies

Xeon E5-2667 v3 and Athlon Silver 3050e technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT	+	no data
EDB	+	no data
Secure Key	+	no data
OS Guard	+	no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Xeon E5-2667 v3 and Athlon Silver 3050e are enumerated here.

VT-d	+	no data
VT-x	+	no data
EPT	+	no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Xeon E5-2667 v3 and Athlon Silver 3050e. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR4-1600, DDR4-1866, DDR4-2133	DDR4
Maximum memory size	768 GB	no data
Max memory channels	4	no data
Maximum memory bandwidth	68 GB/s	no data
ECC memory support	+	-

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

no data

AMD Radeon RX Vega 3

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Xeon E5-2667 v3 and Athlon Silver 3050e.

PCIe version	3.0	no data
PCI Express lanes	40	no 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.

Xeon E5-2667 v3 7.97
+331%

Athlon Silver 3050e 1.85

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.

Xeon E5-2667 v3 12657
+331%

Athlon Silver 3050e 2939

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Xeon E5-2667 v3 924
+29.6%

Athlon Silver 3050e 713

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Xeon E5-2667 v3 3935
+188%

Athlon Silver 3050e 1364

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	7.97	1.85
Recency	8 September 2014	1 June 2020
Physical cores	8	2
Threads	16	4
Chip lithography	22 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	135 Watt	6 Watt

Xeon E5-2667 v3 has a 330.8% higher aggregate performance score, and 300% more physical cores and 300% more threads.

Athlon Silver 3050e, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, a 57.1% more advanced lithography process, and 2150% lower power consumption.

The Xeon E5-2667 v3 is our recommended choice as it beats the Athlon Silver 3050e in performance tests.

Be aware that Xeon E5-2667 v3 is a server/workstation processor while Athlon Silver 3050e is a notebook one.

Should you still have questions on choice between Xeon E5-2667 v3 and Athlon Silver 3050e, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.