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AMD Athlon Silver 3050e Review: Explore CPU Specs and Performance

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AMD Athlon Silver 3050e
Let's talk about the AMD Athlon Silver 3050e processor, released in Q1/2020. This review covers all its specs and performance metrics, giving you a comprehensive overview. Feel free to dive into the details and compare it with other models. With its base clock frequency 1.40 GHz, core count , and memory support for DDR4-2400, this CPU packs a punch. It's compatible with Socket FP5 motherboards and has a thermal design power (TDP) of 6 W.

AMD Athlon Silver 3050e specs

Complete list of technical specifications

CPU generation and family

Information about the AMD Athlon Silver 3050e segment (for desktops or laptops) and the CPU family, along with the sales starting date.

Specification Value
Name AMD Athlon Silver 3050e
Family AMD Athlon
CPU group AMD Athlon Silver 3000
Segment Mobile
Generation 4
Predecessor --
Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Technical and quantitative specifications of the AMD Athlon Silver 3050e: number of cores and threads, base and maximum frequencies. The higher these specifications are, the more powerful your CPU will be.

Specification Value
CPU Cores / Threads 2 / 4
Core architecture normal
Cores 2x
Hyperthreading / SMT Yes
Overclocking No
Frequency 1.40 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core) 2.80 GHz
Turbo Frequency (2 Cores) 1.80 GHz

Internal Graphics

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

Specification Value
GPU name AMD Radeon Vega 3 Graphics
GPU frequency 1.00 GHz
GPU (Turbo) No turbo
Execution units 3
Shader 192
Max. GPU Memory 2 GB
Max. displays 3
Generation 8
Direct X 12
Technology 14 nm
Release date Q1/2018

Hardware codec support

List of video codecs supported by the AMD Athlon Silver 3050e CPU. Hardware support of video decoding by embedded graphics cards directly affects the speed and quality of rendering videos.

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

Memory & PCIe

Memory type, clock frequency, multi-channel features, and PCIe version of the AMD Athlon Silver 3050e. 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.

Specification Value
Memory type DDR4-2400
Max. Memory 32 GB
Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
Bandwidth --
ECC Yes
PCIe 3.0 x 8
AES-NI Yes

Thermal Management

Let's find out what TDP has the AMD Athlon Silver 3050e? 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.

Specification Value
TDP (PL1) 6 W
TDP (PL2) --
TDP up --
TDP down --
Tjunction max. 95 \xc2\xb0C

Technical details

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

Specification Value
Technology 14 nm
Chip design
Socket FP5
L2-Cache 1.00 MB
L3-Cache 4.00 MB
Architecture Dali (Zen)
Operating systems
Virtualization AMD-V, SVM
Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
Release date Q1/2020
Release price --
Part Number --
Documents --

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