Athlon Silver 3050e vs Core 2 Duo T9900

Place in the ranking	2664	1997
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	Intel Core 2 Duo	AMD Raven Ridge (Ryzen 2000 APU)
Power efficiency	2.02	29.03
Architecture codename	Penryn (2008−2011)	Dali (Zen) (2020)
Release date	2 June 2009 (15 years ago)	1 June 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$530	no data

Detailed specifications

Core 2 Duo T9900 and Athlon Silver 3050e 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)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	2	4
Base clock speed	3.06 GHz	1.4 GHz
Boost clock speed	0.07 GHz	2.8 GHz
Bus rate	1066 MHz	no data
L1 cache	64 KB (per core)	192 KB
L2 cache	6 MB (shared)	1 MB
L3 cache	6 MB L2 Cache	4 MB
Chip lithography	45 nm	14 nm
Die size	107 mm²	no data
Maximum core temperature	105 °C	no data
Number of transistors	410 million	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	+
VID voltage range	1.05V-1.2125V	no data

Compatibility

Information on Core 2 Duo T9900 and Athlon Silver 3050e 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	1	no data
Socket	BGA479,PGA478	FP5
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Core 2 Duo T9900 and Athlon Silver 3050e. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	no data	MMX, 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
Demand Based Switching	-	no data

Security technologies

Core 2 Duo T9900 and Athlon Silver 3050e technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT	+	no data
EDB	+	no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Core 2 Duo T9900 and Athlon Silver 3050e are enumerated here.

VT-x

no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Core 2 Duo T9900 and Athlon Silver 3050e. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

DDR2, DDR3

DDR4

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

On certain motherboards (Chipset feature)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 ( - 1000 MHz)

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.

Core 2 Duo T9900 0.75

Athlon Silver 3050e 1.85
+147%

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.

Core 2 Duo T9900 1189

Athlon Silver 3050e 2939
+147%

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.

Core 2 Duo T9900 399

Athlon Silver 3050e 704
+76.4%

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.

Core 2 Duo T9900 641

Athlon Silver 3050e 1362
+112%

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.

Core 2 Duo T9900 3538
+5.9%

Athlon Silver 3050e 3339

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.

Core 2 Duo T9900 7094
+4.6%

Athlon Silver 3050e 6780

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.

Core 2 Duo T9900 25.1

Athlon Silver 3050e 18.99
+32.2%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.75	1.85
Recency	2 June 2009	1 June 2020
Threads	2	4
Chip lithography	45 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	6 Watt

Athlon Silver 3050e has a 146.7% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 10 years, 100% more threads, a 221.4% more advanced lithography process, and 483.3% lower power consumption.

The Athlon Silver 3050e is our recommended choice as it beats the Core 2 Duo T9900 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions on choice between Core 2 Duo T9900 and Athlon Silver 3050e, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.