AMD Athlon Silver 3050e vs AMD Athlon 300U

Let's find out which one of AMD Athlon Silver 3050e and AMD Athlon 300U is of a more recent generation, and what segment it belongs to.

• Name
  AMD Athlon Silver 3050e AMD Athlon 300U
• Family
  AMD Athlon AMD Athlon
• CPU group
  AMD Athlon Silver 3000 AMD Athlon 300
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  4 6

In this block we are going to compare AMD Athlon Silver 3050e vs AMD Athlon 300U 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.

• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Overclocking
  No No
• Frequency
  1.40 GHz 2.40 GHz

Common specifications for integrated graphics cards in AMD Athlon Silver 3050e and AMD Athlon 300U 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 AMD Radeon Vega 3 Graphics
• GPU frequency
  1.00 GHz 1.00 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  3 3
• Shader
  192 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 2 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  8 8
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2018 Q1/2018

Let's compare the support of video codecs between AMD Athlon Silver 3050e and AMD Athlon 300U. Hardware support of video decoding by embedded graphics cards directly affects the speed and quality of rendering videos.

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

To choose the best model between AMD Athlon Silver 3050e and AMD Athlon 300U 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 DDR4-2400
• Max. Memory
  32 GB 32 GB
• Memory channels
  2 (Dual Channel) 2
• ECC
  Yes Yes

Let's find out what TDP value would be better for AMD Athlon Silver 3050e or AMD Athlon 300U? 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)
  6 W 15 W
• Tjunction max.
  95 \xc2\xb0C 105 °C

Here you can find a comparison of 2nd and 3rd level cache sizes for AMD Athlon Silver 3050e and AMD Athlon 300U CPUs along with a list of ISA extensions.

• Technology
  14 nm 12 nm
• Socket
  FP5 FP5
• L2-Cache
  1.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Dali (Zen) Picasso (Zen+)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM AMD-V, SVM
• 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, AVX2, FMA3
• Release date
  Q1/2020 Q1/2019