Athlon 3000G vs Athlon II M300

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Primary details

Comparing Athlon II M300 and Athlon 3000G processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated1670
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data5.27
Market segmentLaptopDesktop processor
SeriesAMD Athlon IIAMD Athlon
Power efficiencyno data7.63
Architecture codenameCaspian (2009)Zen+ (2018−2019)
Release date10 September 2009 (15 years ago)7 November 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$49

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Athlon II M300 and Athlon 3000G 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)2 (Dual-core)
Threads24
Base clock speedno data3.5 GHz
Boost clock speed2 GHz3.5 GHz
Bus typeno dataPCIe 3.0
Bus rate3200 MHzno data
Multiplierno data35
L1 cache128 KB192 KB
L2 cache1 MB1 MB
L3 cacheno data4 MB (shared)
Chip lithography45 nm14 nm
Die sizeno data209.78 mm2?
Number of transistorsno data4940 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+
Unlocked multiplier-+

Compatibility

Information on Athlon II M300 and Athlon 3000G 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)
SocketSocket S1 (S1g3)AM4
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon II M300 and Athlon 3000G. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsMMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD Virtualizationno data
AES-NI-+
AVX-+
PowerNow++
Precision Boost 2no data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon II M300 and Athlon 3000G are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon II M300 and Athlon 3000G. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR2DDR4 Dual-channel
Maximum memory sizeno data64 GB?
Maximum memory bandwidthno data42.671 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataAMD Radeon RX Vega 3

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon II M300 and Athlon 3000G.

PCIe versionno data3.0
PCI Express lanesno data6

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.



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 II M300 670
Athlon 3000G 4482
+569%

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.

Athlon II M300 213
Athlon 3000G 957
+349%

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.

Athlon II M300 403
Athlon 3000G 1960
+386%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 September 2009 7 November 2019
Threads 2 4
Chip lithography 45 nm 14 nm

Athlon 3000G has an age advantage of 10 years, 100% more threads, and a 221.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Athlon II M300 and Athlon 3000G. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Athlon II M300 is a notebook processor while Athlon 3000G is a desktop one.


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