AMD Athlon Silver 3050U vs AMD RX-427BB

Comparative analysis of AMD Athlon Silver 3050U and AMD RX-427BB processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Graphics interfaces, Graphics API support, Compatibility, Peripherals, Graphics, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

  • CPU is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • 2.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 35 Watt
Launch date 6 Jan 2020 vs 20 May 2014
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 35 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD RX-427BB

  • 2 more cores, run more applications at once: 4 vs 2
  • 2 more threads: 4 vs 2
  • Around 112400% higher clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 3.2 GHz
  • Around 33% more L1 cache; more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
  • 4x more L2 cache, more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later
Number of cores 4 vs 2
Number of threads 4 vs 2
Maximum frequency 3600 MHz vs 3.2 GHz
L1 cache 256 KB vs 192 KB
L2 cache 4 MB vs 1 MB

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Athlon Silver 3050U
CPU 2: AMD RX-427BB

Name AMD Athlon Silver 3050U AMD RX-427BB
PassMark - Single thread mark 1703
PassMark - CPU mark 2993
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 3.913
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 12.202
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.185
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 0.562
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 3.551
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1702
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1809
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 5750
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1702
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1809
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 5750

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Athlon Silver 3050U AMD RX-427BB

Essentials

Architecture codename Zen Bald Eagle
Launch date 6 Jan 2020 20 May 2014
OPN Tray YM3050C4T2OFG
Place in performance rating 1514 1610
Processor Number 3050U RX-427BB
Vertical segment Mobile Embedded
Family AMD R-Series

Performance

Base frequency 2.3 GHz 2700 MHz
L1 cache 192 KB 256 KB
L2 cache 1 MB 4 MB
L3 cache 4 MB
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Maximum core temperature 95 °C
Maximum frequency 3.2 GHz 3600 MHz
Number of cores 2 4
Number of GPU cores 2
Number of threads 2 4
Unlocked
64 bit support
Die size 928 mm2

Memory

ECC memory support
Max memory channels 2 2
Maximum memory bandwidth 35.76 GB/s 34.1 GB/s
Maximum memory size 32 GB
Supported memory types DDR4-2400 DDR3-2133

Graphics interfaces

DisplayPort
HDMI
Number of displays supported 4

Graphics API support

DirectX 12 11.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.2
Vulkan

Compatibility

Configurable TDP 12-25 Watt 30-35 Watt
Sockets supported FP5 BGA (FP3)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 35 Watt
Package Size micro-BGA

Peripherals

Max number of PCIe lanes 12 16
PCI Express revision 3.0 3.0
PCIe configurations 1x8+1x4

Graphics

Graphics base frequency 600 MHz
Graphics max frequency 686 MHz
Number of pipelines 512
Processor graphics Radeon R7 Graphics
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Codec Engine (VCE)

Advanced Technologies

Enhanced Virus Protection (EVP)
Fused Multiply-Add 3 (FMA3)
Fused Multiply-Add 4 (FMA4)
Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA)
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
Intel® AES New Instructions

Virtualization

AMD Virtualization (AMD-V™)