Athlon 3000 gold and silver, new low cost notebook cpus
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At CES, AMD officially unveiled its Ryzen 4000 processors and Threadripper 3990X, as well as two small entry-level chips belonging to the Athlon 3000 Gold and 3000 Silver family. Called Athlon Gold 3150U and Athlon Silver 3050U, they both have a TDP of 15W. The first one has 2 cores and 4 threads, with frequencies of 2.4 for the Gold model and 3.3 GHz for the Silver model.
Athlon 3000 Gold and Silver are presented for notebooks
Designed for ultraportable devices, these two processors are intended to compete directly with Intel's Pentium Gold 5000U 'Whiskey Lake' and Pentium Silver 'Gemini Lake Refresh'. According to the figures provided by AMD, the Athlon Gold 3150U would be well above the performance of Intel's Pentium Gold (exact reference not specified), both in single and multi-threaded tasks of 43 and 49% respectively.
The superiority of the integrated GPU is even more important, with results ranging from 86 to 90% higher in 3DMark11 and 3DMark FireStrike, again in favor of the AMD processor. This Athlon Gold 3150U has a Radeon Vega 3 iGPU with 3 processing units, i.e. 192 SP, at a frequency of 1 GHz.
Finally, for its part, the Athlon Silver 3050U is limited to two threads. Their frequencies are 2.3 and 3.2 GHz (base / boost). In the case of the iGPU, this is limited to 2 processing units, that is, 128 SP (Stream Processors) with a frequency of 1.10 GHz. Both models are configured with 5MB of cache (L2 + L3).
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AMD did not specify a release date, but we may see these processors powering low-end laptops during 2020. We will keep you posted.
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