Ryzen 7 3700U vs Athlon 64 LE-1620

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Primary details

Comparing Athlon 64 LE-1620 and Ryzen 7 3700U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated1322
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processorLaptop
Seriesno dataAMD Ryzen 7
Power efficiencyno data28.37
Architecture codenameWindsor (2006−2007)Picasso-U (Zen+) (2019−2020)
Release dateOctober 2007 (17 years ago)6 January 2019 (5 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Athlon 64 LE-1620 and Ryzen 7 3700U 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 cores1 (Single-Core)4 (Quad-Core)
Threads18
Base clock speedno data2.3 GHz
Boost clock speed2.4 GHz4 GHz
Bus typeno dataPCIe 3.0
Multiplierno data23
L1 cache128K128K (per core)
L2 cache1 MB512K (per core)
L3 cache0 KB4 MB (shared)
Chip lithography90 nm12 nm
Die size230 mm2209.78 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno data105 °C
Maximum case temperature (TCase)69 °Cno data
Number of transistors227 million4940 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on Athlon 64 LE-1620 and Ryzen 7 3700U 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 configuration11 (Uniprocessor)
SocketAM2FP5
Power consumption (TDP)45 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon 64 LE-1620 and Ryzen 7 3700U. 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-+
FMA-+
AVX-+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon 64 LE-1620 and Ryzen 7 3700U are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon 64 LE-1620 and Ryzen 7 3700U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR2DDR4
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 cardno dataAMD Radeon RX Vega 10 ( - 1400 MHz)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon 64 LE-1620 and Ryzen 7 3700U.

PCIe versionno data3.0
PCI Express lanesno data12

Pros & cons summary


Physical cores 1 4
Threads 1 8
Chip lithography 90 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 45 Watt 15 Watt

Ryzen 7 3700U has 300% more physical cores and 700% more threads, a 650% more advanced lithography process, and 200% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Athlon 64 LE-1620 and Ryzen 7 3700U. We've got no test results to judge.

Note that Athlon 64 LE-1620 is a desktop processor while Ryzen 7 3700U is a notebook one.


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