AMD Athlon Silver 3050e vs AMD PRO A10-9700B

Comparative analysis of AMD Athlon Silver 3050e and AMD PRO A10-9700B processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Graphics, Graphics interfaces, Compatibility, Peripherals, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization, Graphics API support. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark.

AMD Athlon Silver 3050e

AMD PRO A10-9700B

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon Silver 3050e

CPU is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 7 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 14 nm vs 28 nm
2.5x lower typical power consumption: 6 Watt vs 15 Watt
Around 8% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1443 vs 1331
Around 14% better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 2935 vs 2585

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 Jun 2020 vs 24 October 2016
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	6 Watt vs 15 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark	1443 vs 1331
PassMark - CPU mark	2935 vs 2585

Reasons to consider the AMD PRO A10-9700B

2 more cores, run more applications at once: 4 vs 2
Around 21% higher clock speed: 3.4 GHz vs 2.8 GHz
2x more L2 cache, more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later

Number of cores	4 vs 2
Maximum frequency	3.4 GHz vs 2.8 GHz
L2 cache	2 MB vs 1 MB

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Athlon Silver 3050e
CPU 2: AMD PRO A10-9700B

PassMark - Single thread mark

CPU 1

CPU 2

1443

1331

PassMark - CPU mark

CPU 1

CPU 2

2935

2585

Name	AMD Athlon Silver 3050e	AMD PRO A10-9700B
PassMark - Single thread mark	1443	1331
PassMark - CPU mark	2935	2585

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Athlon Silver 3050e	AMD PRO A10-9700B
Essentials
Architecture codename	Zen
Launch date	1 Jun 2020	24 October 2016
OPN Tray	YM3050C7T2OFG	AM970BADY44AB
Place in performance rating	1647	1781
Vertical segment	Laptop	Laptop
Family		AMD PRO A-Series Processors
OS Support		Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition, RHEL x86 64-Bit, Ubuntu x86 64-Bit
Series		AMD PRO A-Series A10 APU for Laptops
Performance
64 bit support
Base frequency	1.4 GHz	2.5 GHz
L1 cache	192 KB
L2 cache	1 MB	2 MB
L3 cache	4 MB
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Maximum frequency	2.8 GHz	3.4 GHz
Number of cores	2	4
Number of GPU cores	3	6
Number of threads	4
Maximum core temperature		90°C
Unlocked
Memory
Max memory channels	2	2
Supported memory types	DDR4-2400
Supported memory frequency		1866 MHz
Graphics
Graphics base frequency	1000 MHz
iGPU core count	3
Number of pipelines	192
Enduro
Graphics max frequency		758 MHz
Processor graphics		R7
Switchable graphics
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Codec Engine (VCE)
Graphics interfaces
DisplayPort
HDMI
Compatibility
Sockets supported	FT5	FP4
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	6 Watt	15 Watt
Configurable TDP		12 Watt/15 Watt
Peripherals
PCI Express revision	3.0
Advanced Technologies
Enhanced Virus Protection (EVP)
Extended Frequency Range (XFR)
Fused Multiply-Add 3 (FMA3)
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2)
Intel® AES New Instructions
AMD Secure technology
DualGraphics
FreeSync
Fused Multiply-Add 4 (FMA4)
Out-of-band client management
PowerGating
PowerNow
PowerTune
RAID
System Image Stability
TrueAudio
Virtualization
AMD Virtualization (AMD-V™)
IOMMU 2.0
Graphics API support
DirectX		12
Vulkan