AMD Athlon Silver 3050e vs AMD RX-421BD

Comparative analysis of AMD Athlon Silver 3050e and AMD RX-421BD 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, 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).

AMD Athlon Silver 3050e

AMD RX-421BD

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon Silver 3050e

CPU is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 7 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 14 nm vs 28 nm
5.8x lower typical power consumption: 6 Watt vs 35 Watt

Launch date	1 Jun 2020 vs 21 October 2015
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	6 Watt vs 35 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD RX-421BD

2 more cores, run more applications at once: 4 vs 2
Around 121329% higher clock speed: 3400 MHz vs 2.8 GHz
Around 67% more L1 cache; more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
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	3400 MHz vs 2.8 GHz
L1 cache	320 KB vs 192 KB
L2 cache	2 MB vs 1 MB

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Athlon Silver 3050e
CPU 2: AMD RX-421BD

Name	AMD Athlon Silver 3050e	AMD RX-421BD
PassMark - Single thread mark	1443
PassMark - CPU mark	2935
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		3.817
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		10.518
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.189
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		0.608
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		4.623
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		8
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1942
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		7025
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		8
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1942
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		7025

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Athlon Silver 3050e	AMD RX-421BD
Essentials
Architecture codename	Zen	Merlin Falcon
Launch date	1 Jun 2020	21 October 2015
OPN Tray	YM3050C7T2OFG
Place in performance rating	1646	1657
Vertical segment	Laptop	Embedded
Family		AMD R-Series
Processor Number		RX-421BD
Performance
64 bit support
Base frequency	1.4 GHz	2100 MHz
L1 cache	192 KB	320 KB
L2 cache	1 MB	2 MB
L3 cache	4 MB
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Maximum frequency	2.8 GHz	3400 MHz
Number of cores	2	4
Number of GPU cores	3
Number of threads	4	4
Die size		1073 mm2
Memory
Max memory channels	2	2
Supported memory types	DDR4-2400	DDR3-2133, DDR4-2400
ECC memory support
Maximum memory bandwidth		38.4 GB/s
Graphics
Graphics base frequency	1000 MHz	800 MHz
iGPU core count	3
Number of pipelines	192	512
Processor graphics		Radeon R7 series
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Codec Engine (VCE)
Graphics interfaces
DisplayPort
HDMI
DVI
eDP
Number of displays supported		3
Compatibility
Sockets supported	FT5	BGA (FP4)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	6 Watt	35 Watt
Configurable TDP		12-35 Watt
Package Size		micro-BGA
Peripherals
PCI Express revision	3.0	3.0
UART
USB 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
Fused Multiply-Add 4 (FMA4)
Virtualization
AMD Virtualization (AMD-V™)
Graphics API support
DirectX		12
OpenGL		4.4