AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

The AMD Athlon Silver 3050U is a mobile processor for thin and light entry level laptops. It is based on the Picasso series (e.g. Ryzen 3000U APUs) and offers two Zen cores clocked at 2.3 to 3.2 GHz without SMT (two threads at once) and 4 MB of L3 Cache. The integrated graphics card is called Radeon RX Vega 2 and offers only 2 CUs (128 shaders) clocked at up to 1,100 MHz.

In Chromebooks, AMD calles the APU AMD Athlon Silver 3050C, but with the exact same specifications (and performance).

Performance

We have not tested a single system built around the 3050U, as of August 2023. Expect the chip to be just a few percentage points slower than the Athlon 3150U (two Zen cores, 4 threads, up to 3.3 GHz). This kind of performance should suffice for most day-to-day tasks but not much more than that.

Power consumption

This Athlon series chip has a default TDP of 15 W (also known as the long-term power limit). Laptop makers are free to change that to anything between 12 W and 25 W with clock speeds and peformance changing accordingly as a result. Either way, that's a tad too high to allow for passively cooled designs.

Last but not the least, the APU is built with a 14 nm process leading to poor, as of early 2023, energy efficiency.

Codename	Dali (Zen)
Series	AMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)
Series: Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU) Dali (Zen) AMD Athlon Gold 3150U 2.4 - 3.3 GHz 2 / 4  4 MB L3 AMD Athlon Silver 3050U « 2.3 - 3.2 GHz 2 / 2  4 MB L3
Clock Rate	2300 - 3200 MHz
Level 1 Cache	192 KB
Level 2 Cache	1 MB
Level 3 Cache	4 MB
Number of Cores / Threads	2 / 2
Power Consumption (TDP = Thermal Design Power)	15 Watt
Transistor Count	4500 Million
Manufacturing Technology	14 nm
Max. Temperature	95 °C
Socket	FP5
Features	DDR4-2400 RAM, PCIe 3, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME
GPU	AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 ( - 1100 MHz)
64 Bit	64 Bit support
Architecture	x86
Announcement Date	01/07/2020
Product Link (external)	www.amd.com

Benchmarks

Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.5 64 Bit Single-Core

743 points (29%)

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Model	CPU	GPU	RAM	Value
HP Laptop 14	Athlon 3050U	Vega 2	12 GB	743

AMD E1-2100

125 -83%

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx

700 -6%

Intel Core i7-8559U

723 -3%

Intel Core i5-4258U

724 -3%

AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 2300U

727 -2%

Intel Pentium Silver N6000

728 -2%

Intel Core i7-2860QM

733 -1%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c+ Gen 3

736 -1%

Intel Core i5-10210Y

738 -1%

Microsoft SQ1

739 -1%

AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

743

Intel Core i7-4722HQ

750 1%

AMD Athlon Gold 3150U

751 1%

Intel Core i7-4510U

758 2%

Intel Core i3-1110G4

772 4%

Intel Core m3-7Y32

773 4%

MediaTek Kompanio 1300T

773 4%

MediaTek Kompanio 838

775 4%

Intel Core i5-4200M

778 5%

AMD Ryzen 3 2300U

783 5%

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Apple M4 Pro (12 cores)

2555 244%

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AMD Ryzen 9 9950X

2559 244%

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Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.5 64 Bit Multi-Core

1429 points (3%)

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Model	CPU	GPU	RAM	Value
HP Laptop 14	Athlon 3050U	Vega 2	12 GB	1429

AMD E1-2100

238.5 -83%

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AMD A10-5750M

1326 -7%

Intel Processor N50

1339 -6%

Intel Core i3-L13G4

1349 -6%

AMD Ryzen Embedded R1505G

1353 -5%

Intel Celeron J4125

1367 -4%

Intel Pentium Gold 4415U

1374 -4%

Intel Core m3-8100Y

1397 -2%

Intel Celeron J4115

1421 -1%

Intel Core i5-5250U

1427 0%

AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

1429

AMD FX-7600P

1438 1%

Intel Core i3-6157U

1519 6%

Intel Celeron N4120

1525 7%

MediaTek Kompanio 520

1532 7%

Intel Core i7-4510U

1534 7%

Intel Processor N200

1540 8%

Intel Core m3-7Y32

1576 10%

Intel Pentium Silver N5000

1582 11%

Intel Core i5-4258U

1588 11%

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Intel Core Ultra 9 285HX

27010 1790%

max:

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX

55811 3806%

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100%

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Other CPUs of the series Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)

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