Athlon Gold 3150U vs Ultra 7 155H

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Aggregate performance score

Core Ultra 7 155H
2023
16 cores / 22 threads, 28 Watt
15.81
+530%
Athlon Gold 3150U
2020
2 cores / 4 threads, 15 Watt
2.51

Core Ultra 7 155H outperforms Athlon Gold 3150U by a whopping 530% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Core Ultra 7 155H and Athlon Gold 3150U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking4331755
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel Meteor Lake-HAMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)
Power efficiency53.4015.83
Architecture codenameMeteor Lake-H (2023)Dali (Zen) (2020)
Release date14 December 2023 (1 year ago)6 January 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$503no data

Detailed specifications

Core Ultra 7 155H and Athlon Gold 3150U 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 cores16 (Hexadeca-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads224
Base clock speed3.8 GHz2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed4.8 GHz3.3 GHz
Multiplierno data24
L1 cache112 KB (per core)192 KB
L2 cache2 MB (per core)1 MB
L3 cache24 MB (shared)4 MB
Chip lithography7 nm14 nm
Maximum core temperature110 °C95 °C
Number of transistorsno data4500 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibilityno data+

Compatibility

Information on Core Ultra 7 155H and Athlon Gold 3150U 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 configuration1no data
SocketIntel BGA 2049FP5
Power consumption (TDP)28 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Core Ultra 7 155H and Athlon Gold 3150U. 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++
vPro+no data
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+no data
TSX+-
Precision Boost 2no data+

Security technologies

Core Ultra 7 155H and Athlon Gold 3150U technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT+no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Core Ultra 7 155H and Athlon Gold 3150U are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+
VT-d+no data
VT-x+no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Core Ultra 7 155H and Athlon Gold 3150U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR5DDR4
Maximum memory sizeno data32 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 card
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Intel Arc 8-Cores iGPU ( - 2250 MHz)AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 ( - 1000 MHz)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Core Ultra 7 155H and Athlon Gold 3150U.

PCIe version5.03.0
PCI Express lanes812

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.

Ultra 7 155H 15.81
+530%
Athlon Gold 3150U 2.51

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.

Ultra 7 155H 25119
+530%
Athlon Gold 3150U 3989

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.

Ultra 7 155H 9828
+170%
Athlon Gold 3150U 3639

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.

Ultra 7 155H 56242
+643%
Athlon Gold 3150U 7566

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

Ultra 7 155H 13031
+211%
Athlon Gold 3150U 4189

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.

Ultra 7 155H 3.61
+1012%
Athlon Gold 3150U 40.13

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

Ultra 7 155H 30
+651%
Athlon Gold 3150U 4

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

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

Ultra 7 155H 2385
+577%
Athlon Gold 3150U 352

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.

Ultra 7 155H 255
+118%
Athlon Gold 3150U 117

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R11.5 is an old benchmark 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 loads a single thread with ray tracing to render a glossy room full of crystal spheres and light sources.

Ultra 7 155H 3.07
+126%
Athlon Gold 3150U 1.36

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.

Ultra 7 155H 10.2
+364%
Athlon Gold 3150U 2.2

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.

Ultra 7 155H 7084
+334%
Athlon Gold 3150U 1631

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.  

Ultra 7 155H 128
+470%
Athlon Gold 3150U 22

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.  

Ultra 7 155H 296
+178%
Athlon Gold 3150U 107

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

Ultra 7 155H 12184
+560%
Athlon Gold 3150U 1847

Blender(-)

Ultra 7 155H 222
Athlon Gold 3150U 1348
+507%

Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core

Ultra 7 155H 1764
+135%
Athlon Gold 3150U 751

7-Zip Single

Ultra 7 155H 5398
+76.1%
Athlon Gold 3150U 3065

7-Zip

Ultra 7 155H 60595
+592%
Athlon Gold 3150U 8752

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 15.81 2.51
Integrated graphics card 18.48 2.98
Recency 14 December 2023 6 January 2020
Physical cores 16 2
Threads 22 4
Chip lithography 7 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 28 Watt 15 Watt

Ultra 7 155H has a 529.9% higher aggregate performance score, 520.1% faster integrated GPU, an age advantage of 3 years, 700% more physical cores and 450% more threads, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

Athlon Gold 3150U, on the other hand, has 86.7% lower power consumption.

The Core Ultra 7 155H is our recommended choice as it beats the Athlon Gold 3150U in performance tests.


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