Athlon Silver 3050e vs Ryzen 3 4300U

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Aggregate performance score

Ryzen 3 4300U
2020
4 cores / 4 threads, 15 Watt
4.86
+153%

Ryzen 3 4300U outperforms Athlon Silver 3050e by a whopping 153% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Ryzen 3 4300U and Athlon Silver 3050e processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking12671980
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU)AMD Raven Ridge (Ryzen 2000 APU)
Power efficiency17.7329.18
Architecture codenameRenoir-U (Zen 2) (2020−2021)Dali (Zen) (2020)
Release date6 January 2020 (4 years ago)1 June 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Ryzen 3 4300U 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 cores4 (Quad-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads44
Base clock speed2.7 GHz1.4 GHz
Boost clock speed3.7 GHz2.8 GHz
Multiplier27no data
L1 cache128K (per core)192 KB
L2 cache512K (per core)1 MB
L3 cache4 MB (shared)4 MB
Chip lithography7 nm14 nm
Die size156 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature105 °Cno data
Number of transistors9800 Millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility++

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 3 4300U 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 configuration1no data
SocketFP6FP5
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 3 4300U and Athlon Silver 3050e. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsMMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SMEMMX, 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++

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 3 4300U and Athlon Silver 3050e are enumerated here.

AMD-V+-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 3 4300U and Athlon Silver 3050e. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4DDR4
Maximum memory size64 GBno data
Maximum memory bandwidth68.27 GB/sno data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon RX Vega 5AMD Radeon RX Vega 3

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 3 4300U 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.

Ryzen 3 4300U 4.86
+153%
Athlon Silver 3050e 1.92

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.

Ryzen 3 4300U 7431
+153%
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.

Ryzen 3 4300U 1267
+77.7%
Athlon Silver 3050e 713

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.

Ryzen 3 4300U 3396
+149%
Athlon Silver 3050e 1364

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

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

Ryzen 3 4300U 563
+148%
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.

Ryzen 3 4300U 164
+60.7%
Athlon Silver 3050e 102

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.

Ryzen 3 4300U 3.2
+146%
Athlon Silver 3050e 1.3

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.  

Ryzen 3 4300U 35
+154%
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.  

Ryzen 3 4300U 172
+146%
Athlon Silver 3050e 70

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.

Ryzen 3 4300U 2397
+70.8%
Athlon Silver 3050e 1403

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

Ryzen 3 4300U 3439
+193%
Athlon Silver 3050e 1172

Blender(-)

Ryzen 3 4300U 888
Athlon Silver 3050e 2299
+159%

Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core

Ryzen 3 4300U 1047
+76%
Athlon Silver 3050e 595

7-Zip Single

Ryzen 3 4300U 4064
+61%
Athlon Silver 3050e 2525

7-Zip

Ryzen 3 4300U 15824
+138%
Athlon Silver 3050e 6642

WebXPRT 3

Ryzen 3 4300U 194
+96.8%
Athlon Silver 3050e 99

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 4.86 1.92
Integrated graphics card 4.64 2.98
Recency 6 January 2020 1 June 2020
Physical cores 4 2
Chip lithography 7 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 6 Watt

Ryzen 3 4300U has a 153.1% higher aggregate performance score, 55.7% faster integrated GPU, 100% more physical cores, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

Athlon Silver 3050e, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 months, and 150% lower power consumption.

The Ryzen 3 4300U is our recommended choice as it beats the Athlon Silver 3050e in performance tests.


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