Athlon Silver 3050e vs Core 2 Extreme X7900

Place in the ranking	2725	2002
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	Intel Core 2 Extreme	AMD Raven Ridge (Ryzen 2000 APU)
Power efficiency	1.51	29.18
Architecture codename	Merom (2006−2008)	Dali (Zen) (2020)
Release date	1 September 2007 (17 years ago)	1 June 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$851	no data

Detailed specifications

Core 2 Extreme X7900 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	2.8 GHz	1.4 GHz
Boost clock speed	2.8 GHz	2.8 GHz
Bus rate	800 MHz	no data
L1 cache	128 KB	192 KB
L2 cache	4 MB	1 MB
L3 cache	0 KB	4 MB
Chip lithography	65 nm	14 nm
Die size	143 mm²	no data
Maximum core temperature	100 °C	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	+
VID voltage range	1.1V-1.375V	no data

Compatibility

Information on Core 2 Extreme X7900 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	PPGA478	FP5
Power consumption (TDP)	44 Watt	6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Core 2 Extreme X7900 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
Idle States	-	no data
Demand Based Switching	-	no data
AMT	+	no data
FSB parity	-	no data

Security technologies

Core 2 Extreme X7900 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 Extreme X7900 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 Extreme X7900 and Athlon Silver 3050e. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

DDR1

DDR4

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

no data

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 Extreme X7900 0.70

Athlon Silver 3050e 1.85
+164%

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 Extreme X7900 1104

Athlon Silver 3050e 2939
+166%

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 Extreme X7900 387

Athlon Silver 3050e 706
+82.4%

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 Extreme X7900 625

Athlon Silver 3050e 1359
+117%

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 Extreme X7900 3022

Athlon Silver 3050e 3339
+10.5%

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 Extreme X7900 5764

Athlon Silver 3050e 6780
+17.6%

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 Extreme X7900 31.05

Athlon Silver 3050e 18.99
+63.5%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.70	1.85
Recency	1 September 2007	1 June 2020
Threads	2	4
Chip lithography	65 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	44 Watt	6 Watt

Athlon Silver 3050e has a 164.3% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 12 years, 100% more threads, a 364.3% more advanced lithography process, and 633.3% lower power consumption.

The Athlon Silver 3050e is our recommended choice as it beats the Core 2 Extreme X7900 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions on choice between Core 2 Extreme X7900 and Athlon Silver 3050e, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.