AMD Athlon Silver 3050U vs Intel Core i5-5300U. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  AMD Athlon Intel Core i5
• Generation
  4 5
• CPU group
  AMD Athlon Silver 3000 Intel Core i 5000U

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 2.30 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.20 GHz 2.90 GHz
• CPU Threads
  2 4
• Turbo (2 Cores)
  2.30 GHz 2.70 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  No Yes
• 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
  AMD Radeon Vega 3 Graphics Intel HD Graphics 5500
• GPU frequency
  1.10 GHz 0.30 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 0.90 GHz
• Execution units
  3 24
• Shader
  192 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 16 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  8 8
• DirectX Version
  12 11.2
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2018 Q1/2015

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-5300U and AMD Athlon Silver 3050U. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1600
• Max. Memory
  32 GB 16 GB
• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0 2.0
• PCIe lanes
  8 12

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon Silver 3050U and Intel Core i5-5300U to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

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

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

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 3.00 MB
• Architecture
  Dali (Zen) Broadwell U
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  FP5 BGA 1168
• Release date
  Q1/2020 Q1/2015