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).
The performance should be slightly below the AMD Athlon 300U and Athlon Pro 300U due to the lower clock speeds and missing SMT. Also the GPU offers one CU less and should be significantly slower.
Power consumption
This Athlon has a default TDP of 15 W (also known as the long-term power limit). Laptop manufacturers are free to change this value 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 AMD APU is built with a fairly old, as of late 2022, 14 nm process leading to lower-than-average energy efficiency.
Series | AMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU) | ||||||||
Codename | Dali (Zen) | ||||||||
Series: Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU) Dali (Zen)
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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 | XFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT | ||||||||
GPU | AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 ( - 1100 MHz) | ||||||||
64 Bit | 64 Bit support | ||||||||
Architecture | x86 | ||||||||
Announcement Date | 01/07/2020 | ||||||||
Product Link (external) | AMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU) Athlon 3050U |