AMD Athlon Silver 3050GE vs AMD FX-6300

AMD Athlon Silver 3050GE
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3400 MHz / Cores: 2 / Jul 2020
AMD Athlon Silver 3050GE
AMD FX-6300
AMD Socket AM3+DESKTOP
3500 MHz / Cores: 6 / Oct 2012
AMD FX-6300

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Athlon Silver 3050GE
    125%
  • AMD FX-6300
    100%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Athlon Silver 3050GE
    144%
  • AMD FX-6300
    100%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Athlon Silver 3050GE
    105%
  • AMD FX-6300
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Athlon Silver 3050GE

Much higher single threaded performance (around 44% higher), makes a noticeable performance difference in gaming and the majority of applications.
5% higher multi threaded performance.
60 watts lower power draw.
This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).
Has an integrated GPU, which allows to run the system without a dedicated graphics card, unlike the AMD FX-6300.
Around 25% higher average synthetic performance.

Reasons to consider AMD FX-6300

None

AMD Athlon Silver 3050GE

Gaming

HWBench recommends AMD Athlon Silver 3050GE

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

No winner

Productivity

No clear winner declared



Specifications

Features

AMD Athlon Silver 3050GEAMD FX-6300
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4A
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
AES
AVX
AVX2
BMI1
BMI2
SHA
F16C
FMA3
AMD64
EVP
AMD-V
SMAP
SMEP
Precision Boost
SSE4a
CLMUL
CVT16
FMA4
XOP
Turbo Core
HT3.1

Architecture

AMD Athlon Silver 3050GEAMD FX-6300
ArchitectureAMD Zen+vsAMD Piledriver
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4-2933 MHz Dual-channelvsDDR3
CodenameDalivsVishera
Release DateJul 2020vsOct 2012

Cores

AMD Athlon Silver 3050GEAMD FX-6300
Cores2vs6
Threads4vs6
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsRadeon Vega 3vsNo

Cache

AMD Athlon Silver 3050GEAMD FX-6300
L1 Cache96K (per core)vs288 KB
L2 Cache512K (per core)vs6144 KB
L3 Cache4MB (shared)vs8192 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Athlon Silver 3050GEAMD FX-6300
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsAMD Socket AM3+
Max Case Temp95°Cvsunknown
PackageµOPGA-1331vsuPGA
Die Sizeunknownvs315mm²
Process12 nmvs32 nm

Performance

AMD Athlon Silver 3050GEAMD FX-6300
Cpu Frequency3400 MHzvs3500 MHz
Turbo Clocknonevs4100 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs200 MHz
VoltageN/Avs1.4 V
TDP35 Wvs95 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon Silver 3050GE
    3740 points
  • AMD FX-6300
    2501 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon Silver 3050GE
    9125 points
  • AMD FX-6300
    10504 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Athlon Silver 3050GE (simulated)
    140.8
  • AMD FX-6300 (simulated)
    97.26

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD Athlon Silver 3050GE (simulated)
    441.69
  • AMD FX-6300
    417

points - higher is better