Pentium Silver N6005 vs Athlon Silver 3050e

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Aggregate performance score

Athlon Silver 3050e
2020
2 cores / 4 threads, 6 Watt
1.85
Pentium Silver N6005
2021
4 cores / 4 threads, 10 Watt
3.38
+82.7%

Pentium Silver N6005 outperforms Athlon Silver 3050e by an impressive 83% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Athlon Silver 3050e and Pentium Silver N6005 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking20011569
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD Raven Ridge (Ryzen 2000 APU)no data
Power efficiency29.1631.97
Architecture codenameDali (Zen) (2020)Jasper Lake (2021)
Release date1 June 2020 (4 years ago)11 January 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Athlon Silver 3050e and Pentium Silver N6005 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)4 (Quad-Core)
Threads44
Base clock speed1.4 GHz2 GHz
Boost clock speed2.8 GHz3.3 GHz
L1 cache192 KBno data
L2 cache1 MB1.5 MB
L3 cache4 MB4 MB
Chip lithography14 nm10 nm
Maximum core temperatureno data105 °C
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility++

Compatibility

Information on Athlon Silver 3050e and Pentium Silver N6005 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 data1
SocketFP5FCBGA1338
Power consumption (TDP)6 Watt10 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon Silver 3050e and Pentium Silver N6005. 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, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SMEIntel® SSE4.2
AES-NI++
FMA+-
AVX+-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Speed Shiftno data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data-
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data-
Idle Statesno data+
Thermal Monitoring-+
Smart Responseno data-
GPIOno data+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0no data-

Security technologies

Athlon Silver 3050e and Pentium Silver N6005 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data-
Identity Protection-+
SGXno data-
OS Guardno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon Silver 3050e and Pentium Silver N6005 are enumerated here.

VT-dno data+
VT-xno data+
EPTno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon Silver 3050e and Pentium Silver N6005. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4DDR4
Maximum memory sizeno data16 GB
Max memory channelsno data2

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 ( - 1000 MHz)Intel UHD Graphics
Quick Sync Video-+
Graphics max frequencyno data900 MHz
Execution Unitsno data32

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Athlon Silver 3050e and Pentium Silver N6005 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supportedno data3
eDPno data+
DisplayPort-+
HDMI-+
MIPI-DSIno data+

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Athlon Silver 3050e and Pentium Silver N6005 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution supportno data+
Max resolution over HDMI 1.4no data4096x2160@60Hz
Max resolution over eDPno data4096x2160@60Hz
Max resolution over DisplayPortno data4096x2160@60Hz

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Athlon Silver 3050e and Pentium Silver N6005 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectXno data12
OpenGLno data4.5

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon Silver 3050e and Pentium Silver N6005.

PCI Express lanesno data8
USB revisionno data2.0/3.2
Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Portsno data2
Number of USB portsno data14
Integrated LANno data-
UARTno 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 3050e 1.85
Pentium Silver N6005 3.38
+82.7%

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 3050e 2939
Pentium Silver N6005 5367
+82.6%

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 3050e 706
+28.6%
Pentium Silver N6005 549

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 3050e 1359
Pentium Silver N6005 1428
+5.1%

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

Athlon Silver 3050e 3339
Pentium Silver N6005 3970
+18.9%

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

Athlon Silver 3050e 6780
Pentium Silver N6005 12496
+84.3%

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

Athlon Silver 3050e 18.99
Pentium Silver N6005 16.55
+14.7%

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

Athlon Silver 3050e 3
Pentium Silver N6005 5
+93.2%

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

Athlon Silver 3050e 227
Pentium Silver N6005 319
+40.8%

Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.

Athlon Silver 3050e 102
Pentium Silver N6005 121
+18.6%

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R11.5 is an old benchmark by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version loads a single thread with ray tracing to render a glossy room full of crystal spheres and light sources.

Athlon Silver 3050e 1.18
Pentium Silver N6005 1.48
+25.4%

TrueCrypt AES

TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.

Athlon Silver 3050e 1.3
Pentium Silver N6005 2.8
+112%

WinRAR 4.0

WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.

Athlon Silver 3050e 1403
Pentium Silver N6005 1675
+19.4%

x264 encoding pass 2

x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.  

Athlon Silver 3050e 14
Pentium Silver N6005 25
+82.5%

x264 encoding pass 1

x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.  

Athlon Silver 3050e 70
Pentium Silver N6005 119
+69.4%

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

Athlon Silver 3050e 1172
Pentium Silver N6005 1673
+42.7%

Blender(-)

Athlon Silver 3050e 2299
+27.3%
Pentium Silver N6005 1805

Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core

Athlon Silver 3050e 595
Pentium Silver N6005 695
+16.9%

7-Zip Single

Athlon Silver 3050e 2525
Pentium Silver N6005 3465
+37.3%

7-Zip

Athlon Silver 3050e 6642
Pentium Silver N6005 9964
+50%

WebXPRT 3

Athlon Silver 3050e 99
Pentium Silver N6005 146
+48.1%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 1.85 3.38
Integrated graphics card 2.98 5.58
Recency 1 June 2020 11 January 2021
Physical cores 2 4
Chip lithography 14 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 6 Watt 10 Watt

Athlon Silver 3050e has 66.7% lower power consumption.

Pentium Silver N6005, on the other hand, has a 82.7% higher aggregate performance score, 87.2% faster integrated GPU, an age advantage of 7 months, 100% more physical cores, and a 40% more advanced lithography process.

The Pentium Silver N6005 is our recommended choice as it beats the Athlon Silver 3050e in performance tests.


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