Athlon Silver 3050U vs Steam Deck OLED APU

Place in the ranking	1332	1946
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU)	AMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)
Architecture codename	Van Gogh (Custom) (2023)	Dali (Zen) (2020)
Release date	9 November 2023 (less than a year ago)	6 January 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Steam Deck OLED APU 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	4 (Quad-Core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	8	2
Base clock speed	2.4 GHz	2.3 GHz
Boost clock speed	3.5 GHz	3.2 GHz
Multiplier	no data	23
L1 cache	256 KB	192 KB
L2 cache	2 MB	1 MB
L3 cache	4 MB	4 MB
Chip lithography	6 nm	14 nm
Maximum core temperature	no data	95 °C
Number of transistors	no data	4500 Million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	no data	+

Compatibility

Information on Steam Deck OLED APU 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.

Socket	no data	FP5
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

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

Instruction set extensions	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	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	+	+
Precision Boost 2	no data	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Steam Deck OLED APU and Athlon Silver 3050U are enumerated here.

AMD-V

Memory specs

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

Supported memory types	DDR4	DDR4
Maximum memory size	no data	32 GB
Max memory channels	no data	2
Maximum memory bandwidth	no data	38.397 GB/s
ECC memory support	-	+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon Steam Deck 8CU

AMD Radeon RX Vega 2

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Steam Deck OLED APU and Athlon Silver 3050U.

PCIe version	no data	3.0
PCI Express lanes	no data	12

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	4.49	1.96
Recency	9 November 2023	6 January 2020
Physical cores	4	2
Threads	8	2
Chip lithography	6 nm	14 nm

Steam Deck OLED APU has a 129.1% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 3 years, 100% more physical cores and 300% more threads, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

The Steam Deck OLED APU is our recommended choice as it beats the Athlon Silver 3050U in performance tests.

Should you still have questions on choice between Steam Deck OLED APU and Athlon Silver 3050U, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.