Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3945WX vs Athlon Gold 3150U
Aggregate performance score
Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3945WX outperforms Athlon Gold 3150U by a whopping 742% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
Primary details
Comparing Athlon Gold 3150U and Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3945WX processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.
| Place in the ranking | 1814 | 277 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Server |
| Series | AMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU) | AMD Ryzen Threadripper |
| Power efficiency | 15.75 | 7.10 |
| Designer | AMD | AMD |
| Architecture codename | Dali (Zen) (2020) | Castle Peak (2020) |
| Release date | 6 January 2020 (5 years ago) | 14 July 2020 (4 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Athlon Gold 3150U and Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3945WX 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 cores | 2 (Dual-core) | 12 (Dodeca-Core) |
| Threads | 4 | 24 |
| Base clock speed | 2.4 GHz | 4 GHz |
| Boost clock speed | 3.3 GHz | 4.3 GHz |
| Multiplier | 24 | 40 |
| L1 cache | 192 KB | 64 KB (per core) |
| L2 cache | 1 MB | 512 KB (per core) |
| L3 cache | 4 MB | 64 MB |
| Chip lithography | 14 nm | 7 nm, 12 nm |
| Die size | no data | 2x 74 mm2 |
| Maximum core temperature | 95 °C | no data |
| Maximum case temperature (TCase) | no data | 95 °C |
| Number of transistors | 4500 Million | 7,600 million |
| 64 bit support | + | + |
| Windows 11 compatibility | + | + |
Compatibility
Information on Athlon Gold 3150U and Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3945WX 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 configuration | no data | 1 |
| Socket | FP5 | WRX8 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | 280 Watt |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon Gold 3150U and Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3945WX. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | MMX, 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 | no data |
| AES-NI | + | + |
| FMA | + | - |
| AVX | + | + |
| Precision Boost 2 | + | no data |
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon Gold 3150U and Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3945WX are enumerated here.
| AMD-V | + | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon Gold 3150U and Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3945WX. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR4 | DDR4-3200 |
| Maximum memory size | 32 GB | 2 TiB |
| Max memory channels | 2 | no data |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 38.397 GB/s | 204.8 GB/s |
| ECC memory support | + | - |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.
| Integrated graphics card | AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 ( - 1000 MHz) | N/A |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon Gold 3150U and Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3945WX.
| PCIe version | 3.0 | 4.0 |
| PCI Express lanes | 12 | 128 |
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.
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. Other than that, Passmark measures multi-core performance.
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.
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.
Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 2.48 | 20.88 |
| Recency | 6 January 2020 | 14 July 2020 |
| Physical cores | 2 | 12 |
| Threads | 4 | 24 |
| Chip lithography | 14 nm | 7 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | 280 Watt |
Athlon Gold 3150U has 1766.7% lower power consumption.
Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3945WX, on the other hand, has a 741.9% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 6 months, 500% more physical cores and 500% more threads, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.
The AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3945WX is our recommended choice as it beats the AMD Athlon Gold 3150U in performance tests.
Be aware that Athlon Gold 3150U is a notebook processor while Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3945WX is a server/workstation one.
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