Athlon Silver 3050U vs Pentium 987

Primary details

Comparing Pentium 987 and Athlon Silver 3050U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking	not rated	1969
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	Intel Pentium	AMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)
Power efficiency	no data	11.86
Architecture codename	Sandy Bridge (2011−2013)	Dali (Zen) (2020)
Release date	1 February 2013 (11 years ago)	6 January 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$134	no data

Detailed specifications

Pentium 987 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 cores	2 (Dual-core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	2	2
Base clock speed	1.5 GHz	2.3 GHz
Boost clock speed	1.5 GHz	3.2 GHz
Bus type	DMI 2.0	no data
Bus rate	4 × 5 GT/s	no data
Multiplier	15	23
L1 cache	64K (per core)	192 KB
L2 cache	256K (per core)	1 MB
L3 cache	2 MB (shared)	4 MB
Chip lithography	32 nm	14 nm
Die size	131 mm2	no data
Maximum core temperature	100 °C	95 °C
Number of transistors	504 million	4500 Million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	+

Compatibility

Information on Pentium 987 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 configuration	1 (Uniprocessor)	no data
Socket	FCBGA1023	FP5
Power consumption (TDP)	17 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium 987 and Athlon Silver 3050U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2	MMX, 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
My WiFi	-	no data
Turbo Boost Technology	-	no data
Hyper-Threading Technology	-	no data
Idle States	+	no data
Thermal Monitoring	+	-
Flex Memory Access	+	no data
Demand Based Switching	-	no data
FDI	+	no data
Fast Memory Access	+	no data
Precision Boost 2	no data	+

Security technologies

Pentium 987 and Athlon Silver 3050U technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT	-	no data
EDB	+	no data
Anti-Theft	-	no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium 987 and Athlon Silver 3050U are enumerated here.

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

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium 987 and Athlon Silver 3050U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR3	DDR4
Maximum memory size	16.38 GB	32 GB
Max memory channels	2	2
Maximum memory bandwidth	21.335 GB/s	38.397 GB/s
ECC memory support	-	+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card	Intel® HD Graphics for 2nd Generation Intel® Processors	AMD Radeon RX Vega 2
Graphics max frequency	1 GHz	no data

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium 987 and Athlon Silver 3050U integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported	2	no data
eDP	+	no data
DisplayPort	+	-
HDMI	+	-
SDVO	+	no data
CRT	+	no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium 987 and Athlon Silver 3050U.

PCIe version	2.0	3.0
PCI Express lanes	16	12

Synthetic benchmark performance

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

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	1 February 2013	6 January 2020
Chip lithography	32 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	17 Watt	15 Watt

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