Athlon 300U vs Apple M4 Pro (14 cores)

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Aggregate performance score

Apple M4 Pro (14 cores)
2024
14 cores / 14 threads, 40 Watt
27.17
+1018%
Athlon 300U
2019
2 cores / 4 threads, 15 Watt
2.43

Apple M4 Pro (14 cores) outperforms Athlon 300U by a whopping 1018% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Apple M4 Pro (14 cores) and Athlon 300U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking1801769
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processorLaptop
SeriesApple M4AMD Athlon
Power efficiency63.9515.25
Architecture codenameno dataRaven Ridge 2 (2019)
Release date30 October 2024 (less than a year ago)6 January 2019 (5 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Apple M4 Pro (14 cores) and Athlon 300U 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 cores14 (Tetradeca-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads144
Base clock speedno data2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed4.5 GHz3.3 GHz
Bus typeno dataPCIe 3.0
Multiplierno data24
L1 cacheno data128K (per core)
L2 cacheno data512K (per core)
L3 cacheno data4 MB (shared)
Chip lithography3 nm14 nm
Die sizeno data209.78 mm2
Number of transistorsno data4940 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibilityno data+

Compatibility

Information on Apple M4 Pro (14 cores) and Athlon 300U 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.

Number of CPUs in a configurationno data1 (Uniprocessor)
Socketno dataFP5
Power consumption (TDP)40 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Apple M4 Pro (14 cores) and Athlon 300U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataXFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT
AES-NI-+
AVX-+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Apple M4 Pro (14 cores) and Athlon 300U are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Apple M4 Pro (14 cores) and Athlon 300U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR4 Dual-channel
Maximum memory sizeno data64 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
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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Apple M4 20-core GPUAMD Radeon RX Vega 3 ( - 1000 MHz)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Apple M4 Pro (14 cores) and Athlon 300U.

PCIe versionno data3.0
PCI Express lanesno data12

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 27.17 2.43
Recency 30 October 2024 6 January 2019
Physical cores 14 2
Threads 14 4
Chip lithography 3 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 40 Watt 15 Watt

Apple M4 Pro (14 cores) has a 1018.1% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 5 years, 600% more physical cores and 250% more threads, and a 366.7% more advanced lithography process.

Athlon 300U, on the other hand, has 166.7% lower power consumption.

The Apple M4 Pro (14 cores) is our recommended choice as it beats the Athlon 300U in performance tests.

Note that Apple M4 Pro (14 cores) is a desktop processor while Athlon 300U is a notebook one.


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