Athlon Silver 3050e vs Pentium Gold 5405U

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Aggregate performance score

Pentium Gold 5405U
2019
2 cores / 4 threads, 15 Watt
1.48
Athlon Silver 3050e
2020
2 cores / 4 threads, 6 Watt
1.85
+25%

Athlon Silver 3050e outperforms Pentium Gold 5405U by a significant 25% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Pentium Gold 5405U and Athlon Silver 3050e processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking21662001
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel Pentium, Pentium GoldAMD Raven Ridge (Ryzen 2000 APU)
Power efficiency9.3429.18
Architecture codenameWhiskey Lake-U (2018−2019)Dali (Zen) (2020)
Release date23 January 2019 (5 years ago)1 June 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$161no data

Detailed specifications

Pentium Gold 5405U 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 speed2.3 GHz1.4 GHz
Boost clock speed2.3 GHz2.8 GHz
Bus typeOPIno data
Bus rate4 GT/sno data
Multiplier23no data
L1 cache128 KB192 KB
L2 cache512 KB1 MB
L3 cache2 MB (shared)4 MB
Chip lithography14 nm14 nm
Maximum core temperature100 °Cno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility++

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Gold 5405U 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
SocketFCBGA1528FP5
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Gold 5405U and Athlon Silver 3050e. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2MMX, 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
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
Smart Response+no data

Security technologies

Pentium Gold 5405U 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
Identity Protection+-
SGXYes with Intel® MEno data
OS Guard+no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium Gold 5405U 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 Pentium Gold 5405U and Athlon Silver 3050e. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3, DDR4DDR4
Maximum memory size64 GBno data
Max memory channels2no data
Maximum memory bandwidth38.397 GB/sno data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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Intel UHD Graphics for 8th Generation Intel ProcessorsAMD Radeon RX Vega 3 ( - 1000 MHz)
Max video memory32 GBno data
Quick Sync Video+-
Clear Video+no data
Clear Video HD+no data
Graphics max frequency950 MHzno data

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium Gold 5405U and Athlon Silver 3050e integrated GPUs.

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

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Pentium Gold 5405U and Athlon Silver 3050e integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution support+no data
Max resolution over HDMI 1.44096x2304@24Hzno data
Max resolution over eDP4096x2304@60Hzno data
Max resolution over DisplayPort4096x2304@60Hzno data

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Pentium Gold 5405U and Athlon Silver 3050e integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX12no data
OpenGL4.5no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium Gold 5405U and Athlon Silver 3050e.

PCIe version2.0no data
PCI Express lanes12no 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.

Pentium Gold 5405U 1.48
Athlon Silver 3050e 1.85
+25%

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.

Pentium Gold 5405U 2357
Athlon Silver 3050e 2939
+24.7%

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.

Pentium Gold 5405U 3561
+6.6%
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.

Pentium Gold 5405U 7886
+16.3%
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.

Pentium Gold 5405U 22.53
Athlon Silver 3050e 18.99
+18.6%

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.

Pentium Gold 5405U 3
+4.4%
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.

Pentium Gold 5405U 233
+2.9%
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.

Pentium Gold 5405U 93
Athlon Silver 3050e 102
+10.2%

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.

Pentium Gold 5405U 1.06
Athlon Silver 3050e 1.18
+11.3%

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.

Pentium Gold 5405U 1.4
+3.8%
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.

Pentium Gold 5405U 1904
+35.7%
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.  

Pentium Gold 5405U 16
+13%
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.  

Pentium Gold 5405U 82
+17.2%
Athlon Silver 3050e 70

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

Pentium Gold 5405U 1324
+13%
Athlon Silver 3050e 1172

Blender(-)

Pentium Gold 5405U 2180
Athlon Silver 3050e 2299
+5.5%

Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core

Pentium Gold 5405U 585
Athlon Silver 3050e 595
+1.6%

7-Zip Single

Pentium Gold 5405U 2528
+0.1%
Athlon Silver 3050e 2525

7-Zip

Pentium Gold 5405U 6502
Athlon Silver 3050e 6642
+2.2%

WebXPRT 3

Pentium Gold 5405U 103
+4.1%
Athlon Silver 3050e 99

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 1.48 1.85
Integrated graphics card 5.58 2.98
Recency 23 January 2019 1 June 2020
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 6 Watt

Pentium Gold 5405U has 87.2% faster integrated GPU.

Athlon Silver 3050e, on the other hand, has a 25% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 1 year, and 150% lower power consumption.

The Athlon Silver 3050e is our recommended choice as it beats the Pentium Gold 5405U in performance tests.


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