Athlon Silver 3050U vs Atom D2550

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Primary details

Comparing Atom D2550 and Athlon Silver 3050U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

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Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel AtomAMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)
Power efficiencyno data11.86
Architecture codenameCedarview (2011−2012)Dali (Zen) (2020)
Release date1 November 2011 (13 years ago)6 January 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Atom D2550 and Athlon Silver 3050U 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)2 (Dual-core)
Threads42
Base clock speed1.86 GHz2.3 GHz
Boost clock speed1.87 GHz3.2 GHz
Multiplierno data23
L1 cache64 KB (per core)192 KB
L2 cache512K (per core)1 MB
L3 cache0 KB4 MB
Chip lithography32 nm14 nm
Die size66 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature100 °C95 °C
Number of transistors176 million4500 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on Atom D2550 and Athlon Silver 3050U 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 configuration1no data
SocketFCBGA559FP5
Power consumption (TDP)10 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Atom D2550 and Athlon Silver 3050U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE2, Intel® SSE3, Intel® SSSE3MMX, 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-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)-no data
Turbo Boost Technology-no data
Hyper-Threading Technology+no data
PAE36 Bitno data
Precision Boost 2no data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Atom D2550 and Athlon Silver 3050U are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+
VT-d-no data
VT-x-no data
VT-i-no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Atom D2550 and Athlon Silver 3050U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3DDR4
Maximum memory size4 GB32 GB
Max memory channels12
Maximum memory bandwidth6.4 GB/s38.397 GB/s
ECC memory support-+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3650AMD Radeon RX Vega 2

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Atom D2550 and Athlon Silver 3050U integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported2no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Atom D2550 and Athlon Silver 3050U.

PCIe versionno data3.0
PCI Express lanes412

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.



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.

Atom D2550 409
Athlon Silver 3050U 2993
+632%

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.

Atom D2550 100
Athlon Silver 3050U 773
+673%

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.

Atom D2550 287
Athlon Silver 3050U 1345
+369%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 November 2011 6 January 2020
Threads 4 2
Chip lithography 32 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 10 Watt 15 Watt

Atom D2550 has 100% more threads, and 50% lower power consumption.

Athlon Silver 3050U, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 8 years, and a 128.6% more advanced lithography process.

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