AMD released its new 15W mobile Zen-based SoCs – Athlon Gold 3150U and Athlon Silver 3050U

LaptopMedia.com News AMD released its new 15W mobile Zen-based SoCs - Athlon Gold 3150U and Athlon Silver 3050U

From: Nikolay Palaozov 13 January 2020 / 06:51 | 0

AMD has just released two new mobile APUs that belong to Athlon 3000 Gold and 3000 Silver series. At least for now, only two SKUs are available. Those new chips are entry-level mainstream ones that are suitable for ultra-portable 2-in-1 devices, tablets, etc. The 3150U is a direct competitor to Intel Pentium Gold 5000U (Whiskey Lake) and the 3050U competes with Pentium Silver CPUs (Gemini Lake Refresh).

The Gold version has 2 cores with SMT support while the smaller Silver sibling has 2 cores only. Both chips have “Zen” cores (14nm), 4MB L3 cache size, 15W TDP, and they are based on the “Dali” silicon. The bigger one has 2.4GHz to 3.3GHz base and boost frequencies while the 3050U has 2.3GHz to 3.2GHz base and boost clocks.

The two new SoCs use the same iGPU – Radeon RX Vega 3. The one in the 3150U has 3 compute units (and 1GHz core clock) while 3050U iGPU has just 2 CUs (and 1.1GHz core clock).

There is one more new APUs released (it’s not part of the Gold and Silver series) – Ryzen 3 3250U. It has 2.6GHz to 3.5GHz clocks, 15W TDP, and RX Vega 3 with 1.2GHz core frequency (with 3 CUs).

You can see all available AMD configurations in our Specs System: https://laptopmedia.com/specs/?q=AMD&hPP=20&idx=laptops&p=0&is_v=1