Ryzen 5 3500U vs Celeron N3050

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Primary details

Comparing Celeron N3050 and Ryzen 5 3500U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated1345
Place by popularitynot in top-10036
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel CeleronAMD Ryzen 5
Power efficiencyno data27.58
Architecture codenameBraswell (2015−2016)Picasso-U (Zen+) (2019−2020)
Release date1 April 2015 (9 years ago)6 January 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$107no data

Detailed specifications

Celeron N3050 and Ryzen 5 3500U 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)
Threads28
Base clock speed1.6 GHz2.1 GHz
Boost clock speed2.16 GHz3.7 GHz
Bus typeIDIPCIe 3.0
Multiplierno data21
L1 cacheno data384 KB
L2 cache1 MB2 MB
L3 cache0 KB4 MB (shared)
Chip lithography14 nm12 nm
Die sizeno data209.78 mm2
Maximum core temperature90 °C105 °C
Number of transistorsno data4940 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on Celeron N3050 and Ryzen 5 3500U 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 configuration1 (Uniprocessor)1 (Uniprocessor)
SocketFCBGA1170FP5
Power consumption (TDP)6 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Celeron N3050 and Ryzen 5 3500U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataMMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, 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
Idle States+no data
Thermal Monitoring+-
Smart Response-no data
GPIO+no data
Smart Connect-no data
HD Audio+no data
RST-no data

Security technologies

Celeron N3050 and Ryzen 5 3500U technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-no data
EDB+no data
Secure Boot+no data
Secure Key+no data
Identity Protection+-
OS Guard-no data
Anti-Theft-no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Celeron N3050 and Ryzen 5 3500U are enumerated here.

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

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Celeron N3050 and Ryzen 5 3500U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3DDR4
Maximum memory size8 GB64 GB
Max memory channels22
Maximum memory bandwidthno data38.397 GB/s
ECC memory support-+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardIntel® HD Graphics for Intel® Celeron® Processor N3000 SeriesAMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
Max video memory8 GBno data
Quick Sync Video+-
Clear Video+no data
Clear Video HD+no data
Graphics max frequency600 MHzno data
Execution Units12no data

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Celeron N3050 and Ryzen 5 3500U integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported3no data
eDP+no data
DisplayPort+-
HDMI+-

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Celeron N3050 and Ryzen 5 3500U integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX+no data
OpenGL+no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Celeron N3050 and Ryzen 5 3500U.

PCIe version2.03.0
PCI Express lanes412
USB revision2.0/3.0no data
Total number of SATA ports2no data
Max number of SATA 6 Gb/s Ports2no data
Number of USB ports5no data
Integrated LAN-no data
UART+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.



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.

Celeron N3050 587
Ryzen 5 3500U 6941
+1082%

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.

Celeron N3050 156
Ryzen 5 3500U 862
+453%

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.

Celeron N3050 275
Ryzen 5 3500U 2476
+800%

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.

Celeron N3050 1099
Ryzen 5 3500U 4558
+315%

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.

Celeron N3050 2064
Ryzen 5 3500U 17231
+735%

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

Celeron N3050 1243
Ryzen 5 3500U 5951
+379%

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.

Celeron N3050 55.2
Ryzen 5 3500U 12.88
+329%

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.

Celeron N3050 1
Ryzen 5 3500U 8
+865%

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

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

Celeron N3050 63
Ryzen 5 3500U 650
+940%

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.

Celeron N3050 34
Ryzen 5 3500U 143
+321%

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.

Celeron N3050 0.41
Ryzen 5 3500U 1.65
+302%

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.

Celeron N3050 0.4
Ryzen 5 3500U 4.4
+948%

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.  

Celeron N3050 5
Ryzen 5 3500U 39
+727%

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.  

Celeron N3050 26
Ryzen 5 3500U 135
+428%

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.

Celeron N3050 529
Ryzen 5 3500U 2455
+364%

Geekbench 3 32-bit multi-core

Celeron N3050 1583
Ryzen 5 3500U 13040
+724%

Geekbench 3 32-bit single-core

Celeron N3050 865
Ryzen 5 3500U 3443
+298%

Geekbench 2

Celeron N3050 2194
Ryzen 5 3500U 11917
+443%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 April 2015 6 January 2019
Physical cores 2 4
Threads 2 8
Chip lithography 14 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 6 Watt 15 Watt

Celeron N3050 has 150% lower power consumption.

Ryzen 5 3500U, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, 100% more physical cores and 300% more threads, and a 16.7% more advanced lithography process.

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