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)
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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 | 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

* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
Reviews for the AMD Athlon Silver 3050U processor
HP 14s-fq0004ns: AMD Radeon RX Vega 2, 14.00", 1.5 kg
External Review » HP 14s-fq0004ns
HP 15s-eq1131ns: AMD Radeon RX Vega 2, 15.60", 1.7 kg
External Review » HP 15s-eq1131ns
Acer Aspire 1 A114-21-R6NP: AMD Radeon RX Vega 2, 14.00", 1.5 kg
External Review » Acer Aspire 1 A114-21-R6NP
HP Chromebook 14b-na0003ns: AMD Radeon RX Vega 2, 14.00", 1.5 kg
External Review » HP Chromebook 14b-na0003ns
HP 15s-eq1074ns: AMD Radeon RX Vega 2, 15.60", 1.7 kg
External Review » HP 15s-eq1074ns
HP 15s-eq1075ns: AMD Radeon RX Vega 2, 15.60", 1.7 kg
External Review » HP 15s-eq1075ns
Dell Inspiron 15 3505, Athlon 3050: AMD Radeon RX Vega 2, 15.60", 2 kg
External Review » Dell Inspiron 15 3505, Athlon 3050
HP 15s-eq1003nt: AMD Radeon RX Vega 2, 15.60", 1.7 kg
External Review » HP 15s-eq1003nt
Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3-81W100HKIN: AMD Radeon RX Vega 2, 15.60", 1.9 kg
External Review » Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3-81W100HKIN
HP 15s-eq015ns: AMD Radeon RX Vega 2, 15.60", 1.7 kg
External Review » HP 15s-eq015ns
Asus M509DA-EJ458T: AMD Radeon RX Vega 2, 15.60", 1.8 kg
External Review » Asus M509DA-EJ458T
HP 14s-dk1001au: AMD Radeon RX Vega 2, 14.00", 1.5 kg
External Review » HP 14s-dk1001au
HP 15s-eq1023ns: AMD Radeon RX Vega 2, 15.60", 1.7 kg
External Review » HP 15s-eq1023ns
HP 15s-eq1015ns: AMD Radeon RX Vega 2, 15.60", 1.7 kg
External Review » HP 15s-eq1015ns
HP 15s-eq1019ns: AMD Radeon RX Vega 2, 15.60", 1.7 kg
External Review » HP 15s-eq1019ns