Athlon 300U: specs and benchmarks

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Athlon 300U
2019
2 cores / 4 threads, 15 Watt
2.43

Athlon 300U provides poor benchmark performance at 2.43% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

AMD started Athlon 300U sales 6 January 2019. This is a Raven Ridge 2 architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 2 cores and 4 threads, and is based on 14 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3300 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket FP5 processor with a TDP of 15 Watt. It supports DDR4 Dual-channel memory.

Primary details

Athlon 300U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking1771
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Market segmentLaptop
SeriesAMD Athlon
Power efficiency15.33of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme)
Architecture codenameRaven Ridge 2 (2019)
Release date6 January 2019 (5 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores2 (Dual-core)
Threads4
Base clock speed2.4 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed3.3 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
Bus typePCIe 3.0
Multiplier24of 42 (Core i7-7700K)
L1 cache128K (per core)of 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache512K (per core)of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache4 MB (shared)of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography14 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Die size209.78 mm2
Number of transistors4940 Millionof 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility+

Compatibility

Information on Athlon 300U compatibility with other computer components and devices: 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 configuration1 (Uniprocessor)of 8 (Opteron 842)
SocketFP5
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattof 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Athlon 300U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

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

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

AMD-V+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Athlon 300U's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4 Dual-channel
Maximum memory size64 GBof 6 TiB (EPYC 9124)
Max memory channels2of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)
Maximum memory bandwidth38.397 GB/sof 460.8 GB/s (EPYC 9124)
ECC memory support+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of a GPU integrated into Athlon 300U.

Integrated graphics cardAMD Radeon RX Vega 3 ( - 1000 MHz)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version3.0of 5.0 (Core i9-12900K)
PCI Express lanes12of 128 (EPYC 7551P)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Athlon 300U. Overall benchmark performance 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.

Athlon 300U 2.43

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.

Athlon 300U 3867

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.

Athlon 300U 3968

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.

Athlon 300U 8724

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

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

Athlon 300U 308

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.

Athlon 300U 119

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.

Athlon 300U 1.9

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.

Athlon 300U 1623

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.  

Athlon 300U 19

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.  

Athlon 300U 89

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

Athlon 300U 1840

Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core

Athlon 300U 867

WebXPRT 3

Athlon 300U 143

Geekbench 3 32-bit multi-core

Athlon 300U 6134

Geekbench 3 32-bit single-core

Athlon 300U 2919

Geekbench 2

Athlon 300U 6868

Geekbench 4.0 64-bit multi-core

Athlon 300U 5763

Geekbench 4.0 64-bit single-core

Athlon 300U 3213

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Athlon 300U's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook CPUs.


Athlon 300U 100

Intel equivalent

According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Athlon 300U is Core i7-2675QM, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 4 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest Intel rivals to Athlon 300U:

Athlon 300U 100

Similar processors

Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Athlon 300U, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Athlon 300U in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 4711 configurations using Athlon 300U in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
0.6% (28/4711)
RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 7900 XTX
0.02% (1/4711)
RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
0.1% (6/4711)
RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
0.1% (6/4711)
RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
0.04% (2/4711)
RTX 4060 GeForce RTX 4060
0.04% (2/4711)
TITAN RTX TITAN RTX
0.02% (1/4711)

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