Athlon Silver 3050U vs A6-5200

Place in performance ranking	2381	1931
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	AMD A-Series	AMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)
Architecture codename	Kabini (2013−2014)	Dali (Zen) (2020)
Release date	23 May 2013 (11 years ago)	6 January 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

A6-5200 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	4 (Quad-Core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	4	2
Base clock speed	no data	2.3 GHz
Boost clock speed	2 GHz	3.2 GHz
Multiplier	no data	23
L1 cache	256 KB	192 KB
L2 cache	2048 KB	1 MB
L3 cache	0 KB	4 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	14 nm
Die size	246 mm²	no data
Maximum core temperature	90 °C	95 °C
Maximum case temperature (TCase)	90 °C	no data
Number of transistors	1,178 million	4500 Million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	+

Compatibility

Information on A6-5200 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	FT3	FP5
Power consumption (TDP)	25 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by A6-5200 and Athlon Silver 3050U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	86x SSE (1, 2, 3, 3S, 4.1, 4.2, 4A),-64, AES, AVX	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	FMA4	+
AVX	+	+
PowerNow	+	-
PowerGating	+	-
VirusProtect	+	-
Precision Boost 2	no data	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by A6-5200 and Athlon Silver 3050U are enumerated here.

AMD-V	+	+
IOMMU 2.0	+	-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by A6-5200 and Athlon Silver 3050U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR3-1600	DDR4
Maximum memory size	no data	32 GB
Max memory channels	1	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 Compare	AMD Radeon HD 8400	AMD Radeon RX Vega 2
Number of pipelines	128	no data
Enduro	+	-
Switchable graphics	+	-
UVD	+	-
VCE	+	-

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of A6-5200 and Athlon Silver 3050U integrated GPUs.

DisplayPort	+	-
HDMI	+	-

Graphics API support

APIs supported by A6-5200 and Athlon Silver 3050U integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX	DirectX® 11	no data
Vulkan	+	-

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by A6-5200 and Athlon Silver 3050U.

PCIe version	2.0	3.0
PCI Express lanes	no data	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. 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.

A6-5200 1.08

Athlon Silver 3050U 1.94
+79.6%

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.

A6-5200 1665

Athlon Silver 3050U 2993
+79.8%

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.

A6-5200 208

Athlon Silver 3050U 772
+271%

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.

A6-5200 584

Athlon Silver 3050U 1342
+130%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	1.08	1.94
Recency	23 May 2013	6 January 2020
Physical cores	4	2
Threads	4	2
Chip lithography	28 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	25 Watt	15 Watt

A6-5200 has 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads.

Athlon Silver 3050U, on the other hand, has a 79.6% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 6 years, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 66.7% lower power consumption.

The Athlon Silver 3050U is our recommended choice as it beats the A6-5200 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions on choice between A6-5200 and Athlon Silver 3050U, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.