i5-11400F vs Athlon 300U

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Aggregate performance score

Athlon 300U
2019
2 cores / 4 threads, 15 Watt
2.43
Core i5-11400F
2021
6 cores / 12 threads, 65 Watt
10.71
+341%

Core i5-11400F outperforms Athlon 300U by a whopping 341% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Athlon 300U and Core i5-11400F processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking1771732
Place by popularitynot in top-10030
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data39.28
Market segmentLaptopDesktop processor
SeriesAMD Athlonno data
Power efficiency15.3315.59
Architecture codenameRaven Ridge 2 (2019)Rocket Lake (2021)
Release date6 January 2019 (5 years ago)16 March 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$157

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

no data

Detailed specifications

Athlon 300U and Core i5-11400F 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 cores2 (Dual-core)6 (Hexa-Core)
Threads412
Base clock speed2.4 GHz2.6 GHz
Boost clock speed3.3 GHz4.4 GHz
Bus typePCIe 3.0no data
Bus rateno data8 GT/s
Multiplier24no data
L1 cache192 KB64K (per core)
L2 cache1 MB256K (per core)
L3 cache4 MB (shared)12 MB (shared)
Chip lithography14 nm14 nm
Die size209.78 mm2276 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno data100 °C
Maximum case temperature (TCase)no data72 °C
Number of transistors4940 Millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility++

Compatibility

Information on Athlon 300U and Core i5-11400F 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 configuration1 (Uniprocessor)1
SocketFP51200
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt65 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon 300U and Core i5-11400F. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsXFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMTIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2
AES-NI++
FMA-+
AVX++
vProno data-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data2.0
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data+
TSX-+
Idle Statesno data+
Thermal Monitoring-+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0no data-
Deep Learning Boost-+

Security technologies

Athlon 300U and Core i5-11400F technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data+
EDBno data+
Secure Keyno data+
Identity Protection-+
SGXno data-
OS Guardno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon 300U and Core i5-11400F are enumerated here.

AMD-V+-
VT-dno data+
VT-xno data+
EPTno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon 300U and Core i5-11400F. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4 Dual-channelDDR4
Maximum memory size64 GB128 GB
Max memory channels22
Maximum memory bandwidth38.397 GB/s50 GB/s
ECC memory support+-

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardAMD Radeon RX Vega 3 ( - 1000 MHz)no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon 300U and Core i5-11400F.

PCIe version3.04.0
PCI Express lanes1220

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.

Athlon 300U 2.43
i5-11400F 10.71
+341%

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
i5-11400F 17005
+340%

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
i5-11400F 6210
+56.5%

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
i5-11400F 44220
+407%

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.

Athlon 300U 15.44
i5-11400F 4.09
+278%

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
i5-11400F 1574
+411%

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
i5-11400F 210
+76.5%

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
i5-11400F 8.7
+358%

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
i5-11400F 7147
+340%

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
i5-11400F 92
+395%

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
i5-11400F 258
+191%

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

Athlon 300U 1840
i5-11400F 7681
+317%

Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core

Athlon 300U 867
i5-11400F 1575
+81.7%

WebXPRT 3

Athlon 300U 143
i5-11400F 255
+78.3%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 2.43 10.71
Recency 6 January 2019 16 March 2021
Physical cores 2 6
Threads 4 12
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 65 Watt

Athlon 300U has 333.3% lower power consumption.

i5-11400F, on the other hand, has a 340.7% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 2 years, and 200% more physical cores and 200% more threads.

The Core i5-11400F is our recommended choice as it beats the Athlon 300U in performance tests.

Be aware that Athlon 300U is a notebook processor while Core i5-11400F is a desktop one.


Should you still have questions on choice between Athlon 300U and Core i5-11400F, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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