Athlon Silver 3050e vs Ryzen 5 3550H

Aggregate performance score

Ryzen 5 3550H
2019
4 cores / 8 threads, 35 Watt
4.89
+164%
Athlon Silver 3050e
2020
2 cores / 4 threads, 6 Watt
1.85

Ryzen 5 3550H outperforms Athlon Silver 3050e by a whopping 164% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Ryzen 5 3550H and Athlon Silver 3050e processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking12452001
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD Ryzen 5AMD Raven Ridge (Ryzen 2000 APU)
Power efficiency13.2129.16
Architecture codenamePicasso-U (Zen+) (2019−2020)Dali (Zen) (2020)
Release date6 January 2019 (5 years ago)1 June 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Ryzen 5 3550H 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)
Threads84
Base clock speed2.1 GHz1.4 GHz
Boost clock speed3.7 GHz2.8 GHz
Bus typePCIe 3.0no data
Multiplier21no data
L1 cache128K (per core)192 KB
L2 cache512K (per core)1 MB
L3 cache4 MB (shared)4 MB
Chip lithography12 nm14 nm
Die size209.78 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature105 °Cno data
Number of transistors4940 Millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility++

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 5 3550H 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
SocketFP5FP5
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt6 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 3550H and Athlon Silver 3050e. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsMMX (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4A, AES, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, SHAMMX, 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 5 3550H and Athlon Silver 3050e are enumerated here.

AMD-V+-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 5 3550H 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 bandwidth38.4 GB/sno data
ECC memory support+-

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) ( - 1200 MHz)AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 ( - 1000 MHz)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 5 3550H and Athlon Silver 3050e.

PCIe version3.0no 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.

Ryzen 5 3550H 4.89
+164%
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.

Ryzen 5 3550H 7765
+164%
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 5 3550H 943
+33.6%
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.

Ryzen 5 3550H 2862
+111%
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.

Ryzen 5 3550H 4592
+37.5%
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.

Ryzen 5 3550H 19521
+188%
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.

Ryzen 5 3550H 7.67
+148%
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.

Ryzen 5 3550H 9
+241%
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.

Ryzen 5 3550H 742
+228%
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 5 3550H 144
+41.2%
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.

Ryzen 5 3550H 1.65
+39.8%
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.

Ryzen 5 3550H 4.7
+262%
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.

Ryzen 5 3550H 2929
+109%
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.  

Ryzen 5 3550H 44
+221%
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 5 3550H 147
+109%
Athlon Silver 3050e 70

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

Ryzen 5 3550H 3281
+180%
Athlon Silver 3050e 1172

Blender(-)

Ryzen 5 3550H 659
Athlon Silver 3050e 2299
+249%

Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core

Ryzen 5 3550H 899
+51.2%
Athlon Silver 3050e 595

7-Zip Single

Ryzen 5 3550H 3548
+40.5%
Athlon Silver 3050e 2525

7-Zip

Ryzen 5 3550H 17978
+171%
Athlon Silver 3050e 6642

WebXPRT 3

Ryzen 5 3550H 162
+64.3%
Athlon Silver 3050e 99

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 4.89 1.85
Integrated graphics card 4.51 2.98
Recency 6 January 2019 1 June 2020
Physical cores 4 2
Threads 8 4
Chip lithography 12 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 6 Watt

Ryzen 5 3550H has a 164.3% higher aggregate performance score, 51.3% faster integrated GPU, 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads, and a 16.7% more advanced lithography process.

Athlon Silver 3050e, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and 483.3% lower power consumption.

The Ryzen 5 3550H is our recommended choice as it beats the Athlon Silver 3050e in performance tests.


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