Pentium Silver vs Athlon Silver 3050U

Place in the ranking	1971	1958
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	AMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)	no data
Power efficiency	11.86	no data
Architecture codename	Dali (Zen) (2020)	no data
Release date	6 January 2020 (4 years ago)	1 July 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Athlon Silver 3050U and Pentium Silver 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)	no data
Threads	2	no data
Base clock speed	2.3 GHz	no data
Boost clock speed	3.2 GHz	no data
Multiplier	23	no data
L1 cache	192 KB	no data
L2 cache	1 MB	no data
L3 cache	4 MB	no data
Chip lithography	14 nm	no data
Maximum core temperature	95 °C	no data
Number of transistors	4500 Million	no data
64 bit support	+	-
Windows 11 compatibility	+	-

Compatibility

Information on Athlon Silver 3050U and Pentium Silver 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	FP5	no data
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	no data

Technologies and extensions

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

Instruction set extensions	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	no data
AES-NI	+	-
FMA	+	-
AVX	+	-
Precision Boost 2	+	no data

Virtualization technologies

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

AMD-V

Memory specs

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

Supported memory types	DDR4	no data
Maximum memory size	32 GB	no data
Max memory channels	2	no data
Maximum memory bandwidth	38.397 GB/s	no data
ECC memory support	+	-

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 ( - 1100 MHz)

no data

Peripherals

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

PCIe version	3.0	no data
PCI Express lanes	12	no data

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.

Athlon Silver 3050U 1.88

Pentium Silver 1.91
+1.6%

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 2993

Pentium Silver 3034
+1.4%