AMD Athlon Silver 3050C vs HiSilicon Kirin 925

Let's find out which one of AMD Athlon Silver 3050C and HiSilicon Kirin 925 is of a more recent generation, and what segment it belongs to.

• Name
  AMD Athlon Silver 3050C HiSilicon Kirin 925
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  AMD Athlon HiSilicon Kirin
• Generation
  4 2
• CPU group
  AMD Athlon Silver 3000 HiSilicon Kirin 920

In this block we are going to compare AMD Athlon Silver 3050C vs HiSilicon Kirin 925 by main technical specifications: number of cores and threads, base and maximum frequencies, process technology and cache size. The higher these specifications are, the more powerful your CPU will be.

• Frequency
  2.30 GHz 1.30 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 8
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.20 GHz 1.80 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 8
• Hyperthreading
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• A core
  -- 4x Cortex-A15
• B core
  -- 4x Cortex-A7

Common specifications for integrated graphics cards in AMD Athlon Silver 3050C and HiSilicon Kirin 925 along with supported interfaces and connection options. This block has no effect on the final efficiency of the CPU.

• GPU name
  AMD Radeon Vega 3 Graphics ARM Mali-T628 MP4
• GPU frequency
  1.10 GHz 0.60 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 0.60 GHz
• Execution units
  3 4
• Shader
  192 64
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB --
• Max. displays
  3 1
• Generation
  8 Midgard 2
• DirectX Version
  12 11
• Technology
  14 nm 32nm
• Release date
  Q1/2018 Q4/2012

Let's compare the support of video codecs between AMD Athlon Silver 3050C and HiSilicon Kirin 925. Hardware support of video decoding by embedded graphics cards directly affects the speed and quality of rendering videos.

• 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 / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode No

To choose the best model between AMD Athlon Silver 3050C and HiSilicon Kirin 925 you need to pay special attention to memory type, clock frequency, multi-channel features, and PCIe version. The higher these numbers are, the better your CPU will be. Keep in mind that the maximum memory and frequency may also depend on the model of the motherboard.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2400 LPDDR3-1600
• Max. Memory
  32 GB
• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0
• PCIe lanes
  8

AES-NI encryption support for CPUs AMD Athlon Silver 3050C and HiSilicon Kirin 925.

• AES-NI
  Yes No

Let's find out what TDP value would be better for AMD Athlon Silver 3050C or HiSilicon Kirin 925? The Thermal Design Power (TDP) indicates the maximum amount of heat that should be dissipated by the chip cooling system. However, the value of TDP gives only a rough indication of the real power consumption of the CPU.

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

Here you can find a comparison of 2nd and 3rd level cache sizes for AMD Athlon Silver 3050C and HiSilicon Kirin 925 CPUs along with a list of ISA extensions.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) ARMv7-A32 (32 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM None
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  1.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB --
• Architecture
  Dali (Zen) Cortex-A15 / Cortex-A7
• Technology
  14 nm 28 nm
• Socket
  FP5 N/A
• Release date
  Q3/2020 Q3/2014

List of devices based on AMD Athlon Silver 3050C and HiSilicon Kirin 925.

• Used in
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