Athlon Silver 3050GE: specs and benchmarks

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Athlon Silver 3050GE
2020
2 cores / 4 threads, 35 Watt
2.86

Athlon Silver 3050GE provides poor benchmark performance at 2.86% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

AMD started Athlon Silver 3050GE sales 21 July 2020. This is a Dali architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 2 cores and 4 threads, and is based on 12 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3.4 and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket AM4 processor with a TDP of 35 Watt and a maximum temperature of 95 °C. It supports DDR4-2933 memory.

Primary details

Athlon Silver 3050GE processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking1674
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processor
Power efficiency7.73of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme)
Architecture codenameDali (2020)
Release date21 July 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores2 (Dual-core)
Threads4
Base clock speed3.4 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed3.4 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
L1 cache96K (per core)of 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache512K (per core)of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache4 MB (shared)of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography12 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Maximum case temperature (TCase)95 °Cof 105 °C (Core i7-5950HQ)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility+

Compatibility

Information on Athlon Silver 3050GE compatibility with other computer components and devices: 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 configuration1of 8 (Opteron 842)
SocketAM4
Power consumption (TDP)35 Wattof 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Athlon Silver 3050GE. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

AES-NI+
AVX+

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

AMD-V+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Athlon Silver 3050GE's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4-2933

Graphics specifications

General parameters of a GPU integrated into Athlon Silver 3050GE.

Integrated graphics cardAMD Radeon Vega 3

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version4.0of 5.0 (Core i9-12900K)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Athlon Silver 3050GE. Overall benchmark performance 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.

Athlon Silver 3050GE 2.86

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.

Athlon Silver 3050GE 4545

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Athlon Silver 3050GE's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop CPUs.


FX-6350 101.05
Core i5-4570R 100.35
Athlon Silver 3050GE 100
Core i3-7300 99.65
Athlon 240GE 99.65
Core i5-3450 98.95

Intel equivalent

According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Athlon Silver 3050GE is Celeron G6900, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 1 position in our ranking.

Here are some closest Intel rivals to Athlon Silver 3050GE:

Core i5-4460S 101.05
Core i5-4570R 100.35
Athlon Silver 3050GE 100
Core i3-7300 99.65
Core i5-3450 98.95

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Recommended GPUs

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