Question AMD low-end laptop APUs, 3020e, 3050e, 3200U, how do they stack up?

[VirtualLarry]

I currently own 3200U (2C/4T 2.40Ghz base) and 3020e (2C/2T, 1.40Ghz base) laptops. They are fairly similar, but the 3200U definitely is better at multi-tasking. Maybe the 16GB versus 4GB of RAM and the 128GB SATA M.2 versus eMMC has something to do with that too.

I am anticipating some laptops with 3050e being delivered soon. Sadly, they only have 4GB (fixed) DDR4 RAM, and 64GB eMMC (5.1!). The 3050e is 2C/4T 1.60Ghz base.

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Hmm, Samsung eMMC, 250MB/sec seq. read, 11,000 IOPS random read.

 

[maddogmcgee]

Yuck. I refuse to buy anything with less than 4 cores. The tiny savings are not worth it at all. What use would you have for a computer like that?

 

[ao_ika_red]

Embedded RAM and embedded storage are the worst. I love these little skus as they introduce x86 computing world to kids. 3050e is a worthy successor to the venerable Puma+ 7410 APU. I've upgraded several 7410 laptop with 2*4GB RAM and 250GB SSD and according those school kids and workers, they're plenty fast.
And theoretically that 3050e will do just fine, if it has upgradable RAM and storage.

 

[Zepp]

last year I almost bought a laptop with a 3020e (2 thread) thinking for just a light surfing/tubing machine to take on trips it would be fine, but I ended up getting cold feet and got a 3250u (4 thread) model instead.

I've been overall impressed with Dali performance