Athlon Gold 3150U vs A10-9600P

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Aggregate performance score

A10-9600P
2016
4 cores / 4 threads, 15 Watt
1.47
Athlon Gold 3150U
2020
2 cores / 4 threads, 15 Watt
2.51
+70.7%

Athlon Gold 3150U outperforms A10-9600P by an impressive 71% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing A10-9600P and Athlon Gold 3150U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking21731756
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD Bristol RidgeAMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)
Power efficiency9.2715.84
Architecture codenameBristol Ridge (2016−2019)Dali (Zen) (2020)
Release date1 June 2016 (8 years ago)6 January 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

A10-9600P and Athlon Gold 3150U basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores4 (Quad-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads44
Base clock speed2.4 GHz2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed3.3 GHz3.3 GHz
Multiplierno data24
L1 cacheno data192 KB
L2 cache2048 KB1 MB
L3 cacheno data4 MB
Chip lithography28 nm14 nm
Die size250 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature90 °C95 °C
Number of transistors3100 Million4500 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on A10-9600P and Athlon Gold 3150U compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

SocketFP4FP5
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by A10-9600P and Athlon Gold 3150U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataMMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME
AES-NI++
FMAFMA4+
AVX-+
FRTC+-
FreeSync+-
DualGraphics+-
Precision Boost 2no data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by A10-9600P and Athlon Gold 3150U are enumerated here.

AMD-V++

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by A10-9600P and Athlon Gold 3150U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3, DDR4DDR4
Maximum memory sizeno data32 GB
Max memory channels22
Maximum memory bandwidthno data38.397 GB/s
ECC memory support-+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon R5 GraphicsAMD Radeon RX Vega 3 ( - 1000 MHz)
iGPU core count6no data
Enduro+-
Switchable graphics+-
UVD+-
VCE+-

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of A10-9600P and Athlon Gold 3150U integrated GPUs.

DisplayPort+-
HDMI+-

Graphics API support

APIs supported by A10-9600P and Athlon Gold 3150U integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectXDirectX® 12no data
Vulkan+-

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by A10-9600P and Athlon Gold 3150U.

PCIe version3.03.0
PCI Express lanes812

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

A10-9600P 1.47
Athlon Gold 3150U 2.51
+70.7%

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

A10-9600P 2335
Athlon Gold 3150U 3992
+71%

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

A10-9600P 465
Athlon Gold 3150U 814
+75.1%

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

A10-9600P 1042
Athlon Gold 3150U 1668
+60.1%

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

A10-9600P 2447
Athlon Gold 3150U 3639
+48.7%

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

A10-9600P 6508
Athlon Gold 3150U 7566
+16.3%

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

A10-9600P 3287
Athlon Gold 3150U 4189
+27.4%

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

A10-9600P 15.3
+162%
Athlon Gold 3150U 40.13

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

A10-9600P 3
Athlon Gold 3150U 4
+53.5%

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

A10-9600P 216
Athlon Gold 3150U 352
+63%

Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.

A10-9600P 76
Athlon Gold 3150U 117
+53.9%

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R11.5 is an old benchmark by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version loads a single thread with ray tracing to render a glossy room full of crystal spheres and light sources.

A10-9600P 0.9
Athlon Gold 3150U 1.36
+51.1%

TrueCrypt AES

TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.

A10-9600P 1.5
Athlon Gold 3150U 2.2
+46.7%

WinRAR 4.0

WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.

A10-9600P 1526
Athlon Gold 3150U 1631
+6.9%

x264 encoding pass 2

x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.  

A10-9600P 16
Athlon Gold 3150U 22
+37.5%

x264 encoding pass 1

x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.  

A10-9600P 85
Athlon Gold 3150U 107
+24.8%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 1.47 2.51
Recency 1 June 2016 6 January 2020
Physical cores 4 2
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm

A10-9600P has 100% more physical cores.

Athlon Gold 3150U, on the other hand, has a 70.7% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 3 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

The Athlon Gold 3150U is our recommended choice as it beats the A10-9600P in performance tests.


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