Athlon Silver 3050U vs V-Series V140

Place in the ranking	3139	1987
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	AMD V-Series	AMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)
Power efficiency	1.02	11.86
Architecture codename	Champlain (2010−2011)	Dali (Zen) (2020)
Release date	4 October 2010 (14 years ago)	6 January 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

V-Series V140 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	1 (Single-Core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	1	2
Base clock speed	no data	2.3 GHz
Boost clock speed	2.3 GHz	3.2 GHz
Bus rate	3200 MHz	no data
Multiplier	no data	23
L1 cache	128 KB	192 KB
L2 cache	512 KB	1 MB
L3 cache	no data	4 MB
Chip lithography	45 nm	14 nm
Maximum core temperature	no data	95 °C
Number of transistors	no data	4500 Million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	+

Compatibility

Information on V-Series V140 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	S1	FP5
Power consumption (TDP)	25 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by V-Series V140 and Athlon Silver 3050U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	MMX, 3DNow, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4A, AMD64, Enhanced Virus Protection, Virtualization	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	-	+
VirusProtect	+	-
Precision Boost 2	no data	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by V-Series V140 and Athlon Silver 3050U are enumerated here.

AMD-V

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by V-Series V140 and Athlon Silver 3050U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR3	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

no data

AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 ( - 1100 MHz)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by V-Series V140 and Athlon Silver 3050U.

PCIe version	no data	3.0
PCI Express lanes	no data	12

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.27	1.88
Recency	4 October 2010	6 January 2020
Physical cores	1	2
Threads	1	2
Chip lithography	45 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	25 Watt	15 Watt

Athlon Silver 3050U has a 596.3% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 9 years, 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads, a 221.4% more advanced lithography process, and 66.7% lower power consumption.

The Athlon Silver 3050U is our recommended choice as it beats the V-Series V140 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions on choice between V-Series V140 and Athlon Silver 3050U, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.