Pentium III 550E vs Athlon Silver 3050U

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Primary details

Comparing Athlon Silver 3050U and Pentium III 550E processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking1986not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopDesktop processor
SeriesAMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)no data
Power efficiency11.85no data
Architecture codenameDali (Zen) (2020)Coppermine (1999−2001)
Release date6 January 2020 (4 years ago)25 October 1999 (25 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$368

Detailed specifications

Athlon Silver 3050U and Pentium III 550E 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)1 (Single-Core)
Threads21
Base clock speed2.3 GHzno data
Boost clock speed3.2 GHz0.55 GHz
Multiplier23no data
L1 cache192 KB32 KB
L2 cache1 MB256 KB
L3 cache4 MBno data
Chip lithography14 nm180 nm
Die sizeno data106 mm2
Maximum core temperature95 °Cno data
Maximum case temperature (TCase)no data85 °C
Number of transistors4500 Million28 million
64 bit support+-
Windows 11 compatibility+no data

Compatibility

Information on Athlon Silver 3050U and Pentium III 550E 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 configurationno data2
SocketFP5370
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon Silver 3050U and Pentium III 550E. 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, SMEno data
AES-NI+-
FMA+-
AVX+-
Precision Boost 2+no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon Silver 3050U and Pentium III 550E are enumerated here.

AMD-V+-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon Silver 3050U and Pentium III 550E. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4no data
Maximum memory size32 GBno data
Max memory channels2no data
Maximum memory bandwidth38.397 GB/sno data
ECC memory support+-

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardAMD Radeon RX Vega 2 ( - 1100 MHz)On certain motherboards (Chipset feature)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon Silver 3050U and Pentium III 550E.

PCIe version3.0no data
PCI Express lanes12no data

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 January 2020 25 October 1999
Physical cores 2 1
Threads 2 1
Chip lithography 14 nm 180 nm

Athlon Silver 3050U has an age advantage of 20 years, 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads, and a 1185.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Athlon Silver 3050U and Pentium III 550E. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Athlon Silver 3050U is a notebook processor while Pentium III 550E is a desktop one.


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