AMD Athlon Silver 3050U vs Intel Pentium 8505. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  AMD Athlon Silver 3000 Intel Pentium 8000
• Family
  Athlon Intel Pentium
• Form Factor
  Laptops / Desktops -
• Generation
  4 12
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Series
  Athlon 3000 Series -

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• A-Core
  - 1x Golden Cove
• B-Core
  - 4x Gracemont
• Base Frequency
  2.3 GHz 1.2 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• CPU Cores
  2 5
• CPU Threads
  2 6
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Max. Boost Clock
  3.2 GHz -
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.2 GHz 4.4 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  2.3 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (5 Cores)
  - 1.6 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• DirectX Version
  12 12
• Execution units
  3 48
• Generation
  8 12
• GPU Frequency
  1100 MHz 200 MHz
• GPU name
  AMD Radeon Graphics Intel UHD Graphics 11th Gen (48 EU)
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo 1100 MHz
• Graphics Cores
  2 -
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 8 GB
• Release date
  Q1/2018 Q2/2020
• Shader
  192 384
• Technology
  14 nm 10 nm

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No Decode
• H.264 / AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Pentium 8505 and AMD Athlon Silver 3050U. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Max. Memory
  32 GB 64 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR4 DDR4-3200DDR5-4800LPDDR4X-4266LPDDR5-5200
• PCIe
  PCIe 3.0 4.0 x 28
• PCIe lanes
  8 -
• PCIe version
  3.0 -
• System Memory Specification
  2400 -

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon Silver 3050U and Intel Pentium 8505 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Configurable TDP
  12-25 W -
• Default TDP
  15 W -
• Maximum Operating Temperature
  95 °C 100 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  15 W 15 W
• TDP (PL2)
  - 55 W
• TDP down
  12 W -
• TDP up
  25 W -

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Athlon Silver 3050U and Intel Pentium 8505, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Dali (Zen) Alder Lake U
• Codename
  Dali -
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L1-Cache
  0.1875 MB -
• L2-Cache
  1 MB 3.25 MB
• L3-Cache
  4 MB 8 MB
• Manufacturer product ID (tray)
  YM3050C4T2OFG -
• Operating systems
  Windows 11 - 64-Bit Edition / Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition / RHEL x86 64-Bit / Ubuntu x86 64-Bit -
• Release date
  2020-01-06 Q1/2022
• Socket
  FP5 BGA 1744
• Technology
  14nm 10 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d