Athlon Silver 3050e vs i3-1005G1

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Aggregate performance score

Core i3-1005G1
2019
2 cores / 4 threads, 15 Watt
3.09
+67%
Athlon Silver 3050e
2020
2 cores / 4 threads, 6 Watt
1.85

Core i3-1005G1 outperforms Athlon Silver 3050e by an impressive 67% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Core i3-1005G1 and Athlon Silver 3050e processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking16342001
Place by popularity67not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel Core i3AMD Raven Ridge (Ryzen 2000 APU)
Power efficiency11.6929.16
Architecture codenameIce Lake (Client) (2019)Dali (Zen) (2020)
Release date1 August 2019 (5 years ago)1 June 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$281no data

Detailed specifications

Core i3-1005G1 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 cores2 (Dual-core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads44
Base clock speed1.2 GHz1.4 GHz
Boost clock speed3.4 GHz2.8 GHz
Bus typeOPIno data
Bus rate4 × 4 GT/sno data
Multiplier12no data
L1 cache64K (per core)192 KB
L2 cache256K (per core)1 MB
L3 cache4 MB (shared)4 MB
Chip lithography10 nm14 nm
Maximum core temperature100 °Cno data
Maximum case temperature (TCase)72 °Cno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility++

Compatibility

Information on Core i3-1005G1 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 configuration1 (Uniprocessor)no data
SocketFCBGA1526FP5
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Core i3-1005G1 and Athlon Silver 3050e. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512MMX, 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
Speed Shift+no data
Turbo Boost Technology2.0no data
Hyper-Threading Technology+no data
Idle States+no data
Thermal Monitoring+-
Deep Learning Boost+-

Security technologies

Core i3-1005G1 and Athlon Silver 3050e technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-no data
EDB+no data
Secure Key+no data
SGXYes with Intel® MEno data
OS Guard+no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Core i3-1005G1 and Athlon Silver 3050e are enumerated here.

VT-d+no data
VT-x+no data
EPT+no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Core i3-1005G1 and Athlon Silver 3050e. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4DDR4
Maximum memory size64 GBno data
Max memory channels2no data
Maximum memory bandwidth59.732 GB/sno data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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Intel UHD Graphics for 10th Gen Intel ProcessorsAMD Radeon RX Vega 3 ( - 1000 MHz)
Quick Sync Video+-
Graphics max frequency900 MHzno data

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Core i3-1005G1 and Athlon Silver 3050e integrated GPUs.

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

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Core i3-1005G1 and Athlon Silver 3050e integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

Max resolution over HDMI 1.44096 x 2304@60Hzno data
Max resolution over eDP5120 x 3200@60Hzno data
Max resolution over DisplayPort5120 x 3200@60Hzno data

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Core i3-1005G1 and Athlon Silver 3050e integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX12no data
OpenGL4.6no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Core i3-1005G1 and Athlon Silver 3050e.

PCIe version3.0no 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.

i3-1005G1 3.09
+67%
Athlon Silver 3050e 1.85

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.

i3-1005G1 4906
+66.9%
Athlon Silver 3050e 2939

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.

i3-1005G1 1288
+82.4%
Athlon Silver 3050e 706

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.

i3-1005G1 2386
+75.6%
Athlon Silver 3050e 1359

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.

i3-1005G1 6573
+96.9%
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.

i3-1005G1 14323
+111%
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.

i3-1005G1 13.92
+36.4%
Athlon Silver 3050e 18.99

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.

i3-1005G1 5
+82.5%
Athlon Silver 3050e 3

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

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

i3-1005G1 404
+78.4%
Athlon Silver 3050e 227

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.

i3-1005G1 157
+53.9%
Athlon Silver 3050e 102

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.

i3-1005G1 1.88
+59.3%
Athlon Silver 3050e 1.18

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.

i3-1005G1 2.4
+84.6%
Athlon Silver 3050e 1.3

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.

i3-1005G1 2624
+87%
Athlon Silver 3050e 1403

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.  

i3-1005G1 25
+82.8%
Athlon Silver 3050e 14

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.  

i3-1005G1 135
+92.9%
Athlon Silver 3050e 70

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

i3-1005G1 2426
+107%
Athlon Silver 3050e 1172

Blender(-)

i3-1005G1 1264
Athlon Silver 3050e 2299
+81.8%

Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core

i3-1005G1 1160
+95%
Athlon Silver 3050e 595

7-Zip Single

i3-1005G1 3997
+58.3%
Athlon Silver 3050e 2525

7-Zip

i3-1005G1 10895
+64%
Athlon Silver 3050e 6642

WebXPRT 3

i3-1005G1 180
+82%
Athlon Silver 3050e 99

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 3.09 1.85
Integrated graphics card 5.58 2.98
Recency 1 August 2019 1 June 2020
Chip lithography 10 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 6 Watt

i3-1005G1 has a 67% higher aggregate performance score, 87.2% faster integrated GPU, and a 40% more advanced lithography process.

Athlon Silver 3050e, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 10 months, and 150% lower power consumption.

The Core i3-1005G1 is our recommended choice as it beats the Athlon Silver 3050e in performance tests.


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