AMD Athlon Silver 3050U vs AMD Athlon 5150. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  AMD Athlon Silver 3000 AMD Athlon 5000
• Family
  Athlon AMD Athlon
• Form Factor
  Laptops / Desktops -
• Generation
  4 3
• Segment
  Mobile Desktop / Server
• Series
  Athlon 3000 Series -

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

• Base Frequency
  2.3 GHz 1.6 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  2 4
• CPU Threads
  2 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Max. Boost Clock
  3.2 GHz -
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.2 GHz No turbo
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  2.3 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  - No turbo

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 11.1
• Execution units
  3 2
• Generation
  8 5
• GPU Frequency
  1100 MHz 600 MHz
• GPU name
  AMD Radeon Graphics AMD Radeon HD 8400
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo
• Graphics Cores
  2 -
• Max. displays
  3 2
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 2 GB
• Release date
  Q1/2018 Q2/2013
• Shader
  192 128
• Technology
  14 nm 28 nm

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Athlon 5150 and AMD Athlon Silver 3050U. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Max. Memory
  32 GB -
• Memory channels
  2 1
• Memory type
  DDR4 DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM
• PCIe
  PCIe 3.0 -
• 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 AMD Athlon 5150 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 -
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  15 W 25 W
• TDP down
  12 W -
• TDP up
  25 W -

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Athlon Silver 3050U and AMD Athlon 5150, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Dali (Zen) Kabini (Jaguar)
• Codename
  Dali -
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
• L1-Cache
  0.1875 MB -
• L2-Cache
  1 MB -
• L3-Cache
  4 MB 2 MB
• Manufacturer product ID (tray)
  YM3050C4T2OFG -
• Official source
  https://www.amd.com/en/products/specifications/processors.html -
• 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 Q2/2014
• Socket
  FP5 AM1
• Technology
  14nm 28 nm
• Verification scope
  Explicit manufacturer fields refreshed; other original historical fields retained, not all reverified. Partial composite conflicts are preserved. -
• Verified on
  2026-10-01 -
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM AMD-V