Athlon Silver 3050U: specs and benchmarks

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Athlon Silver 3050U
2020
2 cores / 2 threads, 15 Watt
1.88

Athlon Silver 3050U provides poor benchmark performance at 1.88% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

AMD started Athlon Silver 3050U sales 6 January 2020. This is a Dali (Zen) architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 2 cores and 2 threads, and is based on 14 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3200 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is FP5 processor with a TDP of 15 Watt. It supports DDR4 memory.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1987
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Market segmentLaptop
SeriesAMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)
Power efficiency11.86of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme)
Architecture codenameDali (Zen) (2020)
Release date6 January 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)
Threads2
Base clock speed2.3 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed3.2 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
Multiplier23of 42 (Core i7-7700K)
L1 cache192 KBof 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache1 MBof 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache4 MBof 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography14 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Maximum core temperature95 °Cof 110 °C (Atom x7-E3950)
Number of transistors4500 Millionof 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility+

Compatibility

Information on Athlon Silver 3050U 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.

SocketFP5
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattof 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P)

Technologies and extensions

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

Instruction set extensionsMMX, 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+

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 3050U's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4
Maximum memory size32 GBof 6 TiB (EPYC 9124)
Max memory channels2of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)
Maximum memory bandwidth38.397 GB/sof 460.8 GB/s (EPYC 9124)
ECC memory support+

Graphics specifications

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

Integrated graphics cardAMD Radeon RX Vega 2 ( - 1100 MHz)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version3.0of 5.0 (Core i9-12900K)
PCI Express lanes12of 128 (EPYC 7551P)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Athlon Silver 3050U. 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 3050U 1.88

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 3050U 2983

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.

Athlon Silver 3050U 774

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.

Athlon Silver 3050U 1346

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

Athlon Silver 3050U 1429

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Athlon Silver 3050U's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook CPUs.


Core i7-5650U 101.06
Core i5-6200U 100.53
Athlon Silver 3050U 100

Intel equivalent

According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Athlon Silver 3050U is Core i7-3540M, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 1 position in our ranking.

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

Core i7-5650U 101.06
Core i5-6200U 100.53
Athlon Silver 3050U 100

Similar processors

Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Athlon Silver 3050U, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Athlon Silver 3050U in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 16103 configurations using Athlon Silver 3050U in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
1.2% (201/16103)
RTX 4080 GeForce RTX 4080
0.006% (1/16103)
RTX 5880 Ada Generation RTX 5880 Ada Generation
0.006% (1/16103)
RTX 4070 Ti GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
0.04% (6/16103)
RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 7900 XTX
0.04% (6/16103)
RTX 4070 SUPER GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER
0.01% (2/16103)
RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
0.8% (123/16103)
RX 7900 XT Radeon RX 7900 XT
0.01% (2/16103)
RX 6950 XT Radeon RX 6950 XT
0.06% (9/16103)

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