AMD Athlon Silver 3050C
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AMD Athlon Silver 3050C vs AMD Athlon Silver 3050U. Specifications, performance, tests

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Released
Q3/2020
AMD Athlon Silver 3050C
AMD Athlon Silver 3050C
Released
Q1/2020
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AMD Athlon Silver 3050U
AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

What's the best choice AMD Athlon Silver 3050C or AMD Athlon Silver 3050U? Which processor is faster?

We have prepared a comparison to help you choose the best processor. Compare their specifications and benchmarks.

AMD Athlon Silver 3050C has a maximum frequency of 2.30 GHz. 2 Cores. Power consumption of 15 W. Released in Q3/2020.

AMD Athlon Silver 3050U has a maximum frequency of 2.30 GHz. 2 Cores. Power consumption of 15 W. Released in Q1/2020.

Differences


Positions in all rankings

Common positions AMD Athlon Silver 3050C CPU in popular benchmarks, for comparison with other models.

  • Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)
    816 place
  • iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
    835 place
  • Place in the overall ranking

    (based on several benchmarks)

    1285 left arrow score

Positions in all rankings

Common positions AMD Athlon Silver 3050U CPU in popular benchmarks, for comparison with other models.

  • Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)
    550 place
  • Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
    709 place
  • Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)
    919 place
  • Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
    1187 place
  • iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
    859 place
  • Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
    278 place

Specifications

Technical data
AMD Athlon Silver 3050C AMD Athlon Silver 3050C
AMD Athlon Silver 3050U AMD Athlon Silver 3050U
CPU family and group

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

  • Segment
    Mobile left arrow Mobile
  • Family
    AMD Athlon left arrow AMD Athlon
  • Generation
    4 left arrow 4
  • CPU group
    AMD Athlon Silver 3000 left arrow AMD Athlon Silver 3000
CPU Technical specs

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
    2.30 GHz left arrow 2.30 GHz
  • CPU Cores
    2 left arrow 2
  • Turbo (1 Core)
    3.20 GHz left arrow 3.20 GHz
  • CPU Threads
    4 left arrow 2
  • Turbo (2 Cores)
    2.30 GHz left arrow 2.30 GHz
  • Hyperthreading
    Yes left arrow No
  • Overclocking
    No left arrow No
  • Core architecture
    normal left arrow normal
IGPU

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
    AMD Radeon Vega 3 Graphics left arrow AMD Radeon Vega 3 Graphics
  • GPU frequency
    1.10 GHz left arrow 1.10 GHz
  • GPU (Turbo)
    No turbo left arrow No turbo
  • Execution units
    3 left arrow 3
  • Shader
    192 left arrow 192
  • Max. GPU Memory
    2 GB left arrow 2 GB
  • Max. displays
    3 left arrow 3
  • Generation
    8 left arrow 8
  • DirectX Version
    12 left arrow 12
  • Technology
    14 nm left arrow 14 nm
  • Release date
    Q1/2018 left arrow Q1/2018
Hardware codec support

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

  • h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
    Decode / Encode left arrow Decode / Encode
  • h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
    Decode / Encode left arrow Decode / Encode
  • h264
    Decode / Encode left arrow Decode / Encode
  • VP9
    Decode / Encode left arrow Decode / Encode
  • VP8
    Decode / Encode left arrow Decode / Encode
  • AV1
    No left arrow No
  • AVC
    Decode / Encode left arrow Decode / Encode
  • VC-1
    Decode left arrow Decode
  • JPEG
    Decode / Encode left arrow Decode / Encode
Memory specs & PCI

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

  • Memory type
    DDR4-2400 left arrow
  • Max. Memory
    32 GB left arrow 32 GB
  • ECC
    Yes left arrow Yes
  • Memory channels
    2 left arrow 2
  • PCIe version
    3.0 left arrow 3.0
  • PCIe lanes
    8 left arrow 8
Encryption
  • AES-NI
    Yes left arrow Yes
Thermal Management

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

  • TDP (PL1)
    15 W left arrow 15 W
  • TDP up
    25 W left arrow 25 W
  • TDP down
    12 W left arrow 12 W
  • Tjunction max.
    95 °C left arrow 95 °C
Technologies and extensions

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

  • Instruction set (ISA)
    x86-64 (64 bit) left arrow x86-64 (64 bit)
  • Virtualization
    AMD-V, SVM left arrow AMD-V, SVM
  • ISA extensions
    SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 left arrow SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
  • L2-Cache
    1.00 MB left arrow --
  • L3-Cache
    4.00 MB left arrow 4.00 MB
  • Architecture
    Dali (Zen) left arrow Dali (Zen)
  • Technology
    14 nm left arrow 14 nm
  • Socket
    FP5 left arrow FP5
  • Release date
    Q3/2020 left arrow Q1/2020

Benchmarks

Performance tests CPUs

Based on the results of several benchmarks, you can more accurately estimate the difference in performance between AMD Athlon Silver 3050C and AMD Athlon Silver 3050U.

Compare the synthetic test values and choose the best processor!

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
The performance of the iGPU - the internal GPU in games
422
AMD Athlon Silver 3050C
422
AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

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