Athlon Silver 3050U vs A9-9420e

Place in the ranking	2720	1987
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	AMD Bristol Ridge	AMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)
Power efficiency	4.42	11.86
Architecture codename	Stoney Ridge (2016−2019)	Dali (Zen) (2020)
Release date	1 June 2018 (6 years ago)	6 January 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

A9-9420e 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	no data	3.2 GHz
Multiplier	no data	23
L1 cache	no data	192 KB
L2 cache	1 MB	1 MB
L3 cache	no data	4 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	14 nm
Die size	124.5 mm²	no data
Maximum core temperature	90 °C	95 °C
Number of transistors	1200 Million	4500 Million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	+

Compatibility

Information on A9-9420e 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	BGA	FP5
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by A9-9420e and Athlon Silver 3050U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	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	-	+
Precision Boost 2	no data	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by A9-9420e and Athlon Silver 3050U are enumerated here.

AMD-V

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by A9-9420e and Athlon Silver 3050U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR4	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.

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AMD Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 ( - 1100 MHz)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by A9-9420e and Athlon Silver 3050U.

PCIe version	no data	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.

A9-9420e 0.70

Athlon Silver 3050U 1.88
+169%

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.

A9-9420e 1107

Athlon Silver 3050U 2983
+169%