Intel Pentium Silver N5030 vs AMD Athlon Silver 3050U. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  Intel Pentium AMD Athlon
• Generation
  9 4
• CPU group
  Intel Pentium J5000/N5000 AMD Athlon Silver 3000

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  1.10 GHz 2.30 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.10 GHz 3.20 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 2
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal normal

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

• GPU name
  Intel UHD Graphics 605 AMD Radeon Vega 3 Graphics
• GPU frequency
  0.25 GHz 1.10 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.75 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  18 3
• Shader
  144 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB 2 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  9.5 8
• DirectX Version
  12 12
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2017 Q1/2018

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

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Athlon Silver 3050U and Intel Pentium Silver N5030. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Max. Memory
  32 GB
• ECC
  No Yes
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  2.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  6 8

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium Silver N5030 and AMD Athlon Silver 3050U to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  6 W 15 W
• TDP up
  -- 25 W
• TDP down
  -- 12 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 95 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium Silver N5030 and Intel Pentium Silver N5030, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V, SVM
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Gemini Lake Dali (Zen)
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  BGA 1090 FP5
• Release date
  Q4/2019 Q1/2020