Sempron 3850 vs Athlon Silver 3050U

Place in the ranking	1966	2677
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop processor
Series	AMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)	no data
Power efficiency	11.91	2.74
Architecture codename	Dali (Zen) (2020)	Kabini (2013−2014)
Release date	6 January 2020 (4 years ago)	9 April 2014 (10 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Athlon Silver 3050U and Sempron 3850 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)	4 (Quad-Core)
Threads	2	4
Base clock speed	2.3 GHz	no data
Boost clock speed	3.2 GHz	1.3 GHz
Multiplier	23	no data
L1 cache	192 KB	256 KB
L2 cache	1 MB	2048 KB
L3 cache	4 MB	no data
Chip lithography	14 nm	28 nm
Die size	no data	107 mm²
Maximum core temperature	95 °C	90 °C
Maximum case temperature (TCase)	no data	90 °C
Number of transistors	4500 Million	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	+	no data

Compatibility

Information on Athlon Silver 3050U and Sempron 3850 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 configuration	no data	1
Socket	FP5	AM1
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	25 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon Silver 3050U and Sempron 3850. 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	+	FMA4
AVX	+	+
PowerNow	-	+
PowerGating	-	+
VirusProtect	-	+
Precision Boost 2	+	no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon Silver 3050U and Sempron 3850 are enumerated here.

AMD-V	+	+
IOMMU 2.0	-	+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon Silver 3050U and Sempron 3850. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR4	DDR3-1600
Maximum memory size	32 GB	no data
Max memory channels	2	1
Maximum memory bandwidth	38.397 GB/s	no data
ECC memory support	+	-

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card Compare	AMD Radeon RX Vega 2	AMD Radeon R3 Graphics
Number of pipelines	no data	128
Enduro	-	+
Switchable graphics	-	+
UVD	-	+
VCE	-	+

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Athlon Silver 3050U and Sempron 3850 integrated GPUs.

DisplayPort	-	+
HDMI	-	+

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Athlon Silver 3050U and Sempron 3850 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX	no data	DirectX® 12
Vulkan	-	+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon Silver 3050U and Sempron 3850.

PCIe version	3.0	2.0
PCI Express lanes	12	4

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 1.96
+161%

Sempron 3850 0.75

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 2992
+160%

Sempron 3850 1150

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 772
+383%

Sempron 3850 160

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 1344
+151%

Sempron 3850 535

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	1.96	0.75
Recency	6 January 2020	9 April 2014
Physical cores	2	4
Threads	2	4
Chip lithography	14 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	25 Watt

Athlon Silver 3050U has a 161.3% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 5 years, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 66.7% lower power consumption.

Sempron 3850, on the other hand, has 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads.

The Athlon Silver 3050U is our recommended choice as it beats the Sempron 3850 in performance tests.

Be aware that Athlon Silver 3050U is a notebook processor while Sempron 3850 is a desktop one.

Should you still have questions on choice between Athlon Silver 3050U and Sempron 3850, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.