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dan
Keymaster09/12/2020 at 11:36 pm #22323The AMD Athlon Silver 3050U is a budget-friendly laptop processor. It’s geared toward the usual home and office computing tasks. The processor provides basic performance, but good enough for fairly smooth web browsing, work on MS Office-type documents, e-mails, and similar.
Besides the Athlon Silver 3050U, AMD offers the Athlon Gold 3150U, which is slightly faster. These processors with two cores and two computing threads per core are similar to the AMD Ryzen 3 3200U / 3250U with four cores but a single thread per core.
As for graphics rendering, which is important for gaming performance, the Athlon Silver 3050U features a very basic Radeon integrated graphics processor with only two graphics processing cores, as opposed to three on the Athlon Gold and Ryzen 3. All of these graphics processors support only light gaming and the Athlon Silver 3050U is the slowest one among the trio in this aspect.
AMD Athlon Silver 3050U CPU Benchmark

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Dan
Keymaster03/12/2021 at 8:56 am #22356Hi, this processor is designed for “desktop” operating systems like Windows and Linux. It can run mobile operating systems (OS) like iOS and Android via emulation programs. If your question is regarding the processor’s support for peripheral connectivity with iOS and Android phones (ie connection via USB cable), it is not a processor question. It’s ratrher a question whether OS supports that and in case of Windows and (I think most Linux distributions) it does. The same applies to printers.
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JohnIL
Keymaster04/25/2021 at 12:31 pm #22354This is a duel core mobile low powered CPU. It’s not even close to having the performance for editing video, 3D gaming or any other CPU intensive task. But it’s plenty fast for web surfing, watching video streams, and doing Office work. If you want more you need to invest in the Ryzen platform such as a Ryzen 3 or 5 series. I would compare this CPU to a Celeron or Pentium Intel family of CPU’s.
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JohnIL
Keymaster09/10/2021 at 12:07 pm #22344Most laptops today have CPU’s soldered to motherboard. If that model had a upgraded CPU you could possibly swap out motherboards if you could find one with the better CPU. It would probably not be a significant increase in performance though. I believe the 3250u does have hyperthreading which would process 4 threads instead of two with 3050u. However, looking at benchmarks this didn’t make much of a difference.
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Dan
Keymaster09/22/2021 at 7:56 pm #22341If those 8+512 and 4+512 are 8GB / 4GB RAM and 512GB SSD (I hope 512 are SSDs not much slower HDDs), then those two 8GB RAM variants are better. The AMD Ryzen 5 3500U and Intel Core i3-1115G4 perform similar and are excellent for your tasks, while the Athlon 3050 is noticeably slower processor (but still can be used for light computing like chrome or Office apps). All in all, the Ryzen 5 3500U 8GB+512GB is the best variant among the three, if it’s with SSD.
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Mikey
Keymaster11/15/2021 at 12:22 am #22339I like the fact it is easy to upgrade both RAM and SSD. I Upgraded the RAM to 16G and the SSD to 1T. It is not capable of being useful. I have the 1T SSD partitioned into 2 512G and installed UBUNTU Linux got dual boot. The Windows partition is used for surfing and running simple tasks, while the Linux partition is more more robust work: GIMP, Programming, etc.
If you are looking for a good basic laptop for school or home, this should work well – provided you upgrade the drive to something large enough to be useful. Having more memory is also helpful.
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Dan
Keymaster12/09/2021 at 9:44 pm #22337Hi, these are very basic components, and aren’t recommended for serious programming. Especially if you use virtualization or other heavier software. I would suggest at least Intel Core i3 / i5 or AMD Ryzen 3 / 5 processor, at least 8GB RAM, and SSD (coding files are not generally big so you don’t need a lot of storage space, but SSD is a must if you don’t want slowness of HDDs ).
On the other hand, the specs you mentioned can be used for some basic coding, like simple programming in Visual Basic or text editors. But, for sure it won’t be as snappy as on the Core i3 / i5 or Ryzen 3 / 5. -
Dan
Keymaster07/21/2023 at 2:27 pm #22326The mhz speed isn’t as important as memory type, such as DDR3 and DDR4 which are not compatible. What memory type is your laptop memory slot? Also keep in mind that lower-end laptop processors have a low upper memory limit – it may be for instance 8GB in total, so if you add 16GB to 4GB on a laptop with a low-end CPU, you may end up with only 8GB of available RAM in total.
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