AMD Athlon Silver 3050e vs Intel Core i7-2715QE

Comparative analysis of AMD Athlon Silver 3050e and Intel Core i7-2715QE processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Graphics, Graphics interfaces, Compatibility, Peripherals, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization, Security & Reliability. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon Silver 3050e

  • CPU is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 14 nm vs 32 nm
  • 7.5x lower typical power consumption: 6 Watt vs 45 Watt
  • Around 12% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1443 vs 1287
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 Jun 2020 vs January 2011
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 32 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 6 Watt vs 45 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 1443 vs 1287

Reasons to consider the Intel Core i7-2715QE

  • 2 more cores, run more applications at once: 4 vs 2
  • 4 more threads: 8 vs 4
  • Around 7% higher clock speed: 3.00 GHz vs 2.8 GHz
  • Around 33% more L1 cache; more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
  • Around 50% more L3 cache; more data can be stored in the L3 cache for quick access later
  • Around 10% better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 3221 vs 2935
Specifications (specs)
Number of cores 4 vs 2
Number of threads 8 vs 4
Maximum frequency 3.00 GHz vs 2.8 GHz
L1 cache 64 KB (per core) vs 192 KB
L3 cache 6144 KB (shared) vs 4 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - CPU mark 3221 vs 2935

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Athlon Silver 3050e
CPU 2: Intel Core i7-2715QE

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
1443
1287
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
2935
3221
Name AMD Athlon Silver 3050e Intel Core i7-2715QE
PassMark - Single thread mark 1443 1287
PassMark - CPU mark 2935 3221

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Athlon Silver 3050e Intel Core i7-2715QE

Essentials

Architecture codename Zen Sandy Bridge
Launch date 1 Jun 2020 January 2011
OPN Tray YM3050C7T2OFG
Place in performance rating 1647 1817
Vertical segment Laptop Embedded
Processor Number i7-2715QE
Series Legacy Intel® Core™ Processors
Status Launched

Performance

64 bit support
Base frequency 1.4 GHz 2.10 GHz
L1 cache 192 KB 64 KB (per core)
L2 cache 1 MB 256 KB (per core)
L3 cache 4 MB 6144 KB (shared)
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 32 nm
Maximum frequency 2.8 GHz 3.00 GHz
Number of cores 2 4
Number of GPU cores 3
Number of threads 4 8
Bus Speed 5 GT/s DMI
Die size 216 mm
Maximum core temperature 100 C
Transistor count 1160 million

Memory

Max memory channels 2 2
Supported memory types DDR4-2400 DDR3 1066/1333/1600
ECC memory support
Maximum memory size 16.6 GB

Graphics

Graphics base frequency 1000 MHz 650 MHz
iGPU core count 3
Number of pipelines 192
Graphics max dynamic frequency 1.20 GHz
Graphics max frequency 1.2 GHz
Intel® Clear Video HD technology
Intel® Flexible Display Interface (Intel® FDI)
Intel® InTru™ 3D technology
Intel® Quick Sync Video
Processor graphics Intel® HD Graphics 3000

Graphics interfaces

DisplayPort
HDMI
CRT
eDP
Number of displays supported 2
SDVO
Wireless Display (WiDi) support

Compatibility

Sockets supported FT5 FCBGA1023
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 6 Watt 45 Watt
Low Halogen Options Available
Max number of CPUs in a configuration 1
Package Size 31mm x 24mm (FCBGA1023)

Peripherals

PCI Express revision 3.0 2.0
Max number of PCIe lanes 16
PCIe configurations 1x16, 2x8, 1x8+2x4

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
Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® technology
Flexible Display interface (FDI)
Idle States
Instruction set extensions Intel® AVX
Intel 64
Intel® Demand Based Switching
Intel® Fast Memory Access
Intel® Flex Memory Access
Intel® Hyper-Threading technology
Intel® Turbo Boost technology
Intel® vPro™ Platform Eligibility
Thermal Monitoring

Virtualization

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

Security & Reliability

Intel® Identity Protection technology
Intel® Trusted Execution technology (TXT)