Athlon Silver 3050U vs Xeon E5-2696 V3

Place in the ranking	538	1988
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Server	Laptop
Series	no data	AMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)
Power efficiency	8.99	11.86
Architecture codename	Haswell-EP (2014−2015)	Dali (Zen) (2020)
Release date	8 September 2014 (10 years ago)	6 January 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Xeon E5-2696 V3 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	18 (Octadeca-Core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	36	2
Base clock speed	2.3 GHz	2.3 GHz
Boost clock speed	3.8 GHz	3.2 GHz
Multiplier	no data	23
L1 cache	64K (per core)	192 KB
L2 cache	256K (per core)	1 MB
L3 cache	45 MB (shared)	4 MB
Chip lithography	22 nm	14 nm
Die size	356 mm²	no data
Maximum core temperature	no data	95 °C
Maximum case temperature (TCase)	77 °C	no data
Number of transistors	2,600 million	4500 Million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	no data	+

Compatibility

Information on Xeon E5-2696 V3 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.

Number of CPUs in a configuration	2	no data
Socket	2011-3	FP5
Power consumption (TDP)	145 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon E5-2696 V3 and Athlon Silver 3050U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	no data	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	+	+
vPro	+	no data
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	+	no data
TSX	+	-
Precision Boost 2	no data	+

Security technologies

Xeon E5-2696 V3 and Athlon Silver 3050U technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT

no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Xeon E5-2696 V3 and Athlon Silver 3050U are enumerated here.

AMD-V	-	+
VT-d	+	no data
VT-x	+	no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Xeon E5-2696 V3 and Athlon Silver 3050U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR3, DDR4 2133 MHz Quad-channel	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 Xeon E5-2696 V3 and Athlon Silver 3050U.

PCIe version	3.0	3.0
PCI Express lanes	40	12

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.

Xeon E5-2696 V3 13.78
+633%

Athlon Silver 3050U 1.88

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.

Xeon E5-2696 V3 21890
+634%

Athlon Silver 3050U 2982

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.

Xeon E5-2696 V3 1136
+46.8%

Athlon Silver 3050U 774

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.

Xeon E5-2696 V3 8127
+503%

Athlon Silver 3050U 1347

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	13.78	1.88
Recency	8 September 2014	6 January 2020
Physical cores	18	2
Threads	36	2
Chip lithography	22 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	145 Watt	15 Watt

Xeon E5-2696 V3 has a 633% higher aggregate performance score, and 800% more physical cores and 1700% more threads.

Athlon Silver 3050U, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, a 57.1% more advanced lithography process, and 866.7% lower power consumption.

The Xeon E5-2696 V3 is our recommended choice as it beats the Athlon Silver 3050U in performance tests.

Be aware that Xeon E5-2696 V3 is a server/workstation processor while Athlon Silver 3050U is a notebook one.

Should you still have questions on choice between Xeon E5-2696 V3 and Athlon Silver 3050U, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.