Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G vs AMD Athlon Silver 3050C. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Qualcomm Snapdragon 720 AMD Athlon Silver 3000
• Family
  Qualcomm Snapdragon Athlon
• Generation
  2 4
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Form Factor
  - Laptops / Desktops
• 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
  2x Kryo 465 Gold -
• B-Core
  6x Kryo 465 Silver -
• Base Frequency
  1.8 GHz 2.3 GHz
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) normal
• CPU Cores
  8 2
• CPU Threads
  8 2
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  2.3 GHz 3.2 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
  2.3 GHz -
• Max. Boost Clock
  - 3.2 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  - 2.3 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
  12.1 12
• Execution units
  0 3
• Generation
  6 8
• GPU Frequency
  700 MHz 1100 MHz
• GPU name
  Qualcomm Adreno 618 AMD Radeon Graphics
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  4 GB 2 GB
• Release date
  Q2/2019 Q1/2018
• Shader
  128 192
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Graphics Cores
  - 2

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Athlon Silver 3050C and Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No Yes
• Max. Memory
  8 GB 32 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  LPDDR4X-1866 DDR4-2400
• PCIe lanes
  - 8
• PCIe version
  - 3.0

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G and AMD Athlon Silver 3050C Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

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

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G and AMD Athlon Silver 3050C, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Kryo 465 Dali (Zen)
• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  - SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  - 1 MB
• L3-Cache
  - 4 MB
• Part Number
  SM7125 -
• Release date
  Q1/2020 2020-09-22
• Socket
  - FP5
• Technology
  8 nm 14nm
• Virtualization
  None AMD-V, SVM
• Codename
  - Dali
• L1-Cache
  - 0.1875 MB
• Manufacturer product ID (tray)
  - YM305CC4T2OFG
• Operating systems
  - ChromeOS / Windows 11 - 64-Bit Edition