Athlon Silver 3050U vs A9-9400 SoC

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Athlon Silver 3050U Athlon Silver 3050U

Primary details

Comparing A9-9400 SoC and Athlon Silver 3050U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated1971
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processorLaptop
Seriesno dataAMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)
Power efficiencyno data11.86
Architecture codenameStoney Ridge (2016−2019)Dali (Zen) (2020)
Release date31 May 2016 (8 years ago)6 January 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

A9-9400 SoC 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 cores2 (Dual-core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads22
Base clock speed2.4 GHz2.3 GHz
Boost clock speed3.2 GHz3.2 GHz
Multiplierno data23
L1 cache160 KB192 KB
L2 cache1 MB (per core)1 MB
L3 cache0 KB4 MB
Chip lithography28 nm14 nm
Die size125 mm2no data
Maximum core temperatureno data95 °C
Maximum case temperature (TCase)74 °Cno data
Number of transistors1,200 million4500 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on A9-9400 SoC 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 configuration1no data
SocketFT4FP5
Power consumption (TDP)10 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by A9-9400 SoC and Athlon Silver 3050U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataMMX, 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 2no data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by A9-9400 SoC and Athlon Silver 3050U are enumerated here.

AMD-V++

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by A9-9400 SoC and Athlon Silver 3050U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4DDR4
Maximum memory sizeno data32 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
Maximum memory bandwidthno data38.397 GB/s
ECC memory support-+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardRadeon R5 3CUAMD Radeon RX Vega 2

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by A9-9400 SoC and Athlon Silver 3050U.

PCIe version3.03.0
PCI Express lanes812

Pros & cons summary

Recency 31 May 2016 6 January 2020
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 10 Watt 15 Watt

A9-9400 SoC has 50% lower power consumption.

Athlon Silver 3050U, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between A9-9400 SoC and Athlon Silver 3050U. We've got no test results to judge.

Note that A9-9400 SoC is a desktop processor while Athlon Silver 3050U is a notebook one.

Should you still have questions on choice between A9-9400 SoC and Athlon Silver 3050U, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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