AMD Athlon Silver 3050U Benchmark, Test and specs

Last updated: 2024-04-12

The AMD Athlon Silver 3050U was released in Q1/2020 and has 2 cores. The processor can process 2 threads simultaneously and uses a mainboard with the socket FP5. In the Geekbench 5 benchmark, the AMD Athlon Silver 3050U achieved a result of 749 points (single-core) or 1,436 points (multi-core).

CPU lineage
In this classification you can see to which group of processors the AMD Athlon Silver 3050U belongs. We also show the direct predecessor and successor of AMD Athlon Silver 3050U.
Name:	AMD Athlon Silver 3050U
Family:	AMD Athlon (29)
CPU group:	AMD Athlon Silver 3000 (3)
Architecture:	Dali (Zen)
Segment:	Mobile
Generation:	4
Predecessor:	--
Successor:	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The AMD Athlon Silver 3050U has 2 cores. The clock frequency of the AMD Athlon Silver 3050U is 2.30 GHz (3.20 GHz). An initial performance assessment can be made using the number of CPU cores.

CPU Cores / Threads:	2 / 2
Core architecture:	normal
Cores:	2x

Hyperthreading / SMT:	No
Overclocking:	No
Frequency:	2.30 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core):	3.20 GHz
Turbo Frequency (2 Cores):	2.30 GHz

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

AI hardware:	--
AI specifications:	--

Internal Graphics

The AMD Athlon Silver 3050U has an integrated graphics that the system can use to efficiently play back videos. The AMD Athlon Silver 3050U has the AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 (Raven Ridge) installed, which has 3 streaming multiprocessors (192 shaders).

GPU name:	AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 (Raven Ridge)
GPU frequency:	1.10 GHz
GPU (Turbo):	No turbo
Compute units:	3
Shader:	192
Hardware Raytracing:	No
Release date:	Q1/2018

Max. displays:	3
Generation:	8
Direct X:	12
Technology:	14 nm
Max. GPU Memory:	2 GB
Frame Generation:	No

Hardware codec support

Processors with integrated graphics can process video codecs faster. Support for modern codecs can significantly increase system efficiency during video playback.

h265 / HEVC (8 bit):	Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (10 bit):	Decode / Encode
h264:	Decode / Encode
VP8:	Decode / Encode
VP9:	Decode / Encode

AV1:	No
AVC:	Decode / Encode
VC-1:	Decode
JPEG:	Decode / Encode

Memory type:	Memory bandwidth:
Memory & PCIe The AMD Athlon Silver 3050U supports a maximum of 32 GB memory. Depending on the mainboard, the processor can use a maximum of 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. This results in a maximum bandwidth of the main memory of 38.4 GB/s.

DDR4-2400	38.4 GB/s
Max. Memory:	32 GB
Memory channels:	2 (Dual Channel)
ECC:	Yes
PCIe:	3.0 x 8
PCIe Bandwidth:	7.9 GB/s

Thermal Management The AMD Athlon Silver 3050U has a TDP of 15 W. Based on the TDP, the system manufacturer can and must adapt the cooling solution to the processor.

TDP (PL1 / PBP):	15 W
TDP (PL2):	--
TDP up:	25 W
TDP down:	12 W
Tjunction max.:	95 °C

Technical details

Modern production reduces the waste heat of a processor and increases its efficiency. The AMD Athlon Silver 3050U is made in 14 nm and has 4.00 MB cache.

Technology:	14 nm
Chip design:
Socket:	FP5
L2-Cache:	--
L3-Cache:	4.00 MB
AES-NI:	Yes
Operating systems:

Virtualization:	AMD-V, SVM
Instruction set (ISA):	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions:	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
Release date:	Q1/2020
Release price:	--
Part Number:	--
Documents:	Technical data sheet

AMD Athlon Silver 3050U
2C 2T @ 2.30 GHz (3.20 GHz)

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Benchmark results

The benchmark results for the AMD Athlon Silver 3050U have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Core i7-4722HQ 4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz	751
	Intel Core i5-3380M 2C 4T @ 3.60 GHz	750
	Intel Core i7-4700EQ 4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz	750
	AMD Athlon Silver 3050U 2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz	749
	Intel Core i5-3450 4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz	749
	Intel Core i5-6350HQ 4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	749
	Intel Core i5-6300HQ 4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	749

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Core i7-3555LE 2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz	1439
	Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 non LTE 8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz	1439
	Intel Core i5-5200U 2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz	1438
	AMD Athlon Silver 3050U 2C 2T @ 2.30 GHz	1436
	Intel Core i3-7100U 2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	1436
	AMD A8-7650K 4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz	1433
	Intel Core i5-4300U 2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz	1433

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.


	MediaTek Dimensity 900 8C 8T @ 2.40 GHz	887
	HiSilicon Kirin 980 8C 8T @ 2.60 GHz	885
	Intel Core m5-6Y54 2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	875
	AMD Athlon Silver 3050U 2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz	873
	Intel Xeon D-1520 4C 8T @ 2.60 GHz	869
	Intel Xeon E5-2650L v4 14C 28T @ 2.50 GHz	867
	AMD Ryzen Embedded R1600 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	866

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.


	Intel Core m3-7Y30 2C 4T @ 2.00 GHz	1547
	Intel Core i3-4000M 2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	1542
	Intel Core i7-870 4C 8T @ 2.93 GHz	1541
	AMD Athlon Silver 3050U 2C 2T @ 2.30 GHz	1524
	Intel Pentium Gold G6400T 2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	1515
	UNISOC T618 8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz	1513
	Intel Core i3-5020U 2C 4T @ 2.20 GHz	1507

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	AMD FX-6200 6C 6T @ 4.10 GHz	183
	AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 4450U 4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz	183
	AMD A6-9225 2C 2T @ 3.00 GHz	182
	AMD Athlon Silver 3050U 2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz	181
	AMD FX-8300 8C 8T @ 4.20 GHz	180
	Intel Xeon X3440 4C 8T @ 2.93 GHz	178
	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 4C 4T @ 2.50 GHz	178

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.


	Intel Core i5-7500 Intel HD Graphics 630 @ 1.10 GHz	422
	Intel Core i5-7600T Intel HD Graphics 630 @ 1.10 GHz	422
	Intel Core i7-6700T Intel HD Graphics 530 @ 1.10 GHz	422
	AMD Athlon Silver 3050U AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 (Raven Ridge) @ 1.10 GHz	422
	AMD Athlon Silver Pro 3125GE AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 (Raven Ridge) @ 1.10 GHz	422
	AMD Athlon Gold Pro 3150G AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 (Raven Ridge) @ 1.10 GHz	422
	AMD Athlon Gold 3150GE AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 (Raven Ridge) @ 1.10 GHz	422

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.


	Intel Core i5-6200U 2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	3009
	Intel Core i7-5600U 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	3008
	Intel Core i5-4308U 2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz	3005
	AMD Athlon Silver 3050U 2C 2T @ 2.30 GHz	3004
	Intel Core i3-7130U 2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	3000
	AMD Phenom II X4 900e 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	2990
	Intel Core i7-940 4C 8T @ 2.93 GHz	2989

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.


	Intel Pentium G3420 2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz	673
	Intel Core i3-7100U 2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	671
	Intel Pentium G3250 2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz	671
	AMD Athlon Silver 3050U 2C 2T @ 2.30 GHz	668
	Intel Pentium Gold 5405U 2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz	666
	AMD A8-7650K 4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	665
	Intel Celeron N4100 4C 4T @ 1.10 GHz	664

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Core i7-5500U 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	123
	Intel Core i7-5550U 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	123
	Intel Pentium G3240 2C 2T @ 3.10 GHz	123
	AMD Athlon Silver 3050U 2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz	122
	Intel Core i7-4712HQ 4C 8T @ 3.30 GHz	122
	Intel Xeon Platinum 8153 16C 32T @ 2.80 GHz	122
	Intel Xeon Gold 5115 10C 20T @ 2.80 GHz	122

Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,488 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,461 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,754 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,702 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
656 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,026 entries

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
512 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,392 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
733 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,106 entries

Description of the processor

The AMD Athlon Silver 3050U is a 2-core processor for very small devices or inexpensive notebooks or Chromebooks. The processors base frequency is 2.3 GHz. The processor can increase the clock frequency up to 3.2 GHz via Turbo mode when only one core is used. If both cores are utilized, the processor is only allowed to run them with its base clock of 2.3 GHz. The two CPU cores have to make do with a rather small L3 cache of 4 MB.

The AMD Athlon Silver 3050U is based on the AMD Dali design, which uses Zen+ cores. The processor is still manufactured in the older 14 nm process to keep the processors price low. AMD normally manufactures the 2020 processors (AMD Zen 2) in 7 nm. The 15-watt processor can also be operated with a TDP of 25 watts, but this hardly increases the speed. This is because the 2-core processor also manages with 15 watts. With a cTDP of 12 watts, some more energy can be saved, but the performance hardly changes here either.

The processor has AMDs Radeon Vega 3 Graphics, which has 3 execution units and clocks with up to 1.1 GHz. This is the smallest configuration of the AMD Vega iGPUs. Even undemanding games cannot usually be rendered smoothly, so the graphics are not aimed at gamers, but solely ensure that one or more screens can be controlled without having to resort to a dedicated graphics solution.

The small AMD Athlon Silver 3050U can address up to 32 GB of working memory (DDR4-2400) in dual-channel mode. The memory bandwidth can be greatly increased by using two memory channels, which can have a big impact depending on the application. The processor provides 8 PCIe 3.0 lines for connecting devices.

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