AMD Athlon Silver 3050U vs Intel Core i5-8279U

Comparative analysis of AMD Athlon Silver 3050U and Intel Core i5-8279U processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Graphics interfaces, Graphics API support, Compatibility, Peripherals, Graphics, Graphics image quality, Security & Reliability, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark, Geekbench 4 - Single Core, Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

  • Around 87% lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 28 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 28 Watt

Reasons to consider the Intel Core i5-8279U

  • 2 more cores, run more applications at once: 4 vs 2
  • 6 more threads: 8 vs 2
  • Around 28% higher clock speed: 4.10 GHz vs 3.2 GHz
  • Around 5% higher maximum core temperature: 100 °C vs 95 °C
  • Around 50% more L3 cache; more data can be stored in the L3 cache for quick access later
  • Around 35% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 2297 vs 1706
  • 2.5x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 7458 vs 3003
Specifications (specs)
Number of cores 4 vs 2
Number of threads 8 vs 2
Maximum frequency 4.10 GHz vs 3.2 GHz
Maximum core temperature 100 °C vs 95 °C
L3 cache 6 MB vs 4 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 2297 vs 1706
PassMark - CPU mark 7458 vs 3003

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Athlon Silver 3050U
CPU 2: Intel Core i5-8279U

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
1706
2297
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
3003
7458
Name AMD Athlon Silver 3050U Intel Core i5-8279U
PassMark - Single thread mark 1706 2297
PassMark - CPU mark 3003 7458
Geekbench 4 - Single Core 1043
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core 3981

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Athlon Silver 3050U Intel Core i5-8279U

Essentials

Architecture codename Zen Coffee Lake
Launch date 6 Jan 2020 Q2'19
OPN Tray YM3050C4T2OFG
Place in performance rating 1414 1272
Processor Number 3050U i5-8279U
Vertical segment Mobile Mobile
Launch price (MSRP) $320

Performance

Base frequency 2.3 GHz 2.40 GHz
L1 cache 192 KB
L2 cache 1 MB
L3 cache 4 MB 6 MB
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 14 nm
Maximum core temperature 95 °C 100 °C
Maximum frequency 3.2 GHz 4.10 GHz
Number of cores 2 4
Number of GPU cores 2
Number of threads 2 8
Unlocked
64 bit support
Bus Speed 4 GT/s OPI

Memory

ECC memory support
Max memory channels 2 2
Maximum memory bandwidth 35.76 GB/s 37.5 GB/s
Maximum memory size 32 GB 32 GB
Supported memory types DDR4-2400 DDR4-2400, LPDDR3-2133

Graphics interfaces

DisplayPort
HDMI
DVI
eDP
Number of displays supported 3

Graphics API support

DirectX 12 12
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Vulkan

Compatibility

Configurable TDP 12-25 Watt
Sockets supported FP5 FCBGA1528
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 28 Watt
Max number of CPUs in a configuration 1

Peripherals

Max number of PCIe lanes 12 16
PCI Express revision 3.0 3.0
PCIe configurations 1x8+1x4 1x4, 2x2, 1x2+2x1, 4x1

Graphics

Device ID 0x3EA5
eDRAM 128 MB
Graphics base frequency 300 MHz
Graphics max dynamic frequency 1.15 GHz
Intel® Clear Video HD technology
Intel® Clear Video technology
Intel® InTru™ 3D technology
Intel® Quick Sync Video
Max video memory 32 GB
Processor graphics Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655

Graphics image quality

4K resolution support
Max resolution over DisplayPort 4096x2304@60Hz
Max resolution over eDP 4096x2304@60Hz
Max resolution over HDMI 1.4 4096x2304@30Hz

Security & Reliability

Execute Disable Bit (EDB)
Intel® Identity Protection technology
Intel® Memory Protection Extensions (Intel® MPX)
Intel® OS Guard
Intel® Secure Key technology
Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX)
Intel® Trusted Execution technology (TXT)

Advanced Technologies

Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® technology
Idle States
Intel 64
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2)
Intel® AES New Instructions
Intel® Flex Memory Access
Intel® Hyper-Threading technology
Intel® My WiFi technology
Intel® Optane™ Memory Supported
Intel® Stable Image Platform Program (SIPP)
Intel® TSX-NI
Intel® Turbo Boost technology
Intel® vPro™ Platform Eligibility
Speed Shift technology
Thermal Monitoring

Virtualization

Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x)
Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d)
Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT)