Monday, January 13th 2020
AMD Rolls Out Athlon 3000 Gold and Silver "Zen" 15W Mobile SoCs
The "Zen 2" based Ryzen 4000-series mobile processors and Threadripper 3990X HEDT chip dominated headlines throughout AMD's CES 2020 event, but an important product announcement slipped past us: the mobile Athlon 3000 Gold and 3000 Silver families of entry-level mobile SoCs. These are 15-Watt SoCs targeting low-cost ultraportables, convertibles, and straight up Windows x64 tablets, competing against Intel's Pentium Gold 5000U "Whiskey Lake" and Pentium Silver "Gemini Lake Refresh" series. The family currently only consists of two SKUs, the Athlon Gold 3150U and Athlon Silver 3050U.
The two chips are based on the "Dali" silicon, and feature "Zen" CPU cores. The Athlon Gold 3150U features a 2-core/4-thread "Zen" CPU clocked at 2.40 GHz with 3.30 GHz boost. The Athlon Silver 3050U, on the other hand, is configured with a 2-core/2-thread CPU clocked at 2.30 GHz with 3.20 GHz boost. The CPUs on both models is configured with 4 MB of L3 cache, which takes their "total cache" (L2 + L3) figure up to 5 MB. The iGPU on the 3150U is a Radeon Vega 3 with 192 stream processors, clocked at 1.00 GHz. The one on the 3050U, is AMD's smallest, with just 2 compute units, working up to 128 stream processors, but the engine clock is set at 1.10 GHz.
The two chips are based on the "Dali" silicon, and feature "Zen" CPU cores. The Athlon Gold 3150U features a 2-core/4-thread "Zen" CPU clocked at 2.40 GHz with 3.30 GHz boost. The Athlon Silver 3050U, on the other hand, is configured with a 2-core/2-thread CPU clocked at 2.30 GHz with 3.20 GHz boost. The CPUs on both models is configured with 4 MB of L3 cache, which takes their "total cache" (L2 + L3) figure up to 5 MB. The iGPU on the 3150U is a Radeon Vega 3 with 192 stream processors, clocked at 1.00 GHz. The one on the 3050U, is AMD's smallest, with just 2 compute units, working up to 128 stream processors, but the engine clock is set at 1.10 GHz.
49 Comments on AMD Rolls Out Athlon 3000 Gold and Silver "Zen" 15W Mobile SoCs
C'mon, this is just lame AMD.
Also, this seems way under powered these days, but I guess AMD wants to compete on the low-end of the market too.
These are aimed at cheap notebooks and mini PCs.
Just as hilarious as every time a new GPU is launched. "This successor to the GTX 1060 should cost $150, because I say so."
Or you know nothing about the budget options of the mobile CPU's throughout the years.
15 W 4C CPU's was unheard of until 2017, and still not in any Core i3 laptops. We all know AMD is aiming higher with the new Ryzen 3 starting at 4C4T, but they still need something lower priced than that.
Let's say Athlon Diamond or
R10 3900x
R10 3950x Clearly superior products so create class of your own.
AMD is not the underdog anymore so one would expect better naming approach. Just my 5 cents. . .
Generally speaking consumers who buy this don't know what they're getting into, especially the part about HDD ~ they ought to be banned from this segment altogether!
I think that's why they implemented i3, i5, i7, i9, because odd numbers were less likely to be confused with core count, and obviously AMD followed suit.You know you're wrong, and the proof is in the OP. AMD obviously did the opposite of what you think they're doing, or should do.
If Intels Core i3 has 2 cores, why on earth should the competitor to the lower end Pentium, the Athlon, have 4 cores? It would only cannibalize the Ryzen 3 sales (4C4T).
So, for ENTRY-level mini-laptops, a modern ryzen-based 2C/4T should be more than enough and help lower the prices for poor people and education entities. Noone is going to "play Crysys" or do scientific calculations on them.
I agree on the "lame naming scheme" though. It all started when Intel called their harvested junk CPUs "Celeron" which means "speedy" - a lame name for the slowest CPU in their lineup.
Is AMD going to release EPYC Platinum 7H73?
That's what ryzen 4000 is, high end mobile up to 8c/16t
I'm baffled that people here give it that much bashing. The real annoyance on the market is all the CPU's that are based something simpler than Core/Ryzen dies.
I'm talking about anything Pentium Silver/Celeron/Atom Jxxxx/Nxxxx/Zxxxx, and old AMD E series, now that's some proper crap! :D
For instance, I helped my brother buy a budget laptop for €400 a few years ago, with Core i3, SSD, and 1080 IPS screen, nice bang for buck.
However, the same store was selling laptops that looked identical, but they had some crappy Celeon Nxxxx for €370, that's less than a 10 % difference in price.. :banghead:
I think you missed my point. Why would anyone sane buy a two core notebook these days when quad core notebooks cost almost the same?
Weirdly enough, very few of those for sale in Taiwan, where people earn a lot less than in Europe.
Cheapest Core i3: 3000 sek
Cheapest 4C Core i5: 5500 sek
The difference with Ryzen laptops is much smaller tho, 4200/4700 sek.