Athlon Gold 3150U vs m3-8100Y

VS

Aggregate performance score

Core m3-8100Y
2018
2 cores / 4 threads, 5 Watt
1.79
Athlon Gold 3150U
2020
2 cores / 4 threads, 15 Watt
2.51
+40.2%

Athlon Gold 3150U outperforms Core m3-8100Y by a considerable 40% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Core m3-8100Y and Athlon Gold 3150U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking20251755
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesCore m3AMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)
Power efficiency33.8815.84
Architecture codenameAmber Lake-Y (2018−2021)Dali (Zen) (2020)
Release date30 August 2018 (6 years ago)6 January 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$281no data

Detailed specifications

Core m3-8100Y 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 cores2 (Dual-core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads44
Base clock speed1.1 GHz2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed3.4 GHz3.3 GHz
Bus rate4 GT/sno data
Multiplierno data24
L1 cache128 KB192 KB
L2 cache512 KB1 MB
L3 cache4 MB4 MB
Chip lithography14 nm14 nm
Maximum core temperature100 °C95 °C
Number of transistorsno data4500 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility++

Compatibility

Information on Core m3-8100Y 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
SocketFCBGA1515FP5
Power consumption (TDP)5 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Core m3-8100Y and Athlon Gold 3150U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2MMX, 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
Speed Shift+no data
My WiFi+no data
Turbo Boost Technology2.0no data
Hyper-Threading Technology+no data
Idle States+no data
Thermal Monitoring+-
Flex Memory Access+no data
Smart Response+no data
Precision Boost 2no data+

Security technologies

Core m3-8100Y and Athlon Gold 3150U technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT+no data
EDB+no data
Secure Key+no data
MPX+-
Identity Protection+-
SGXYes with Intel® MEno data
OS Guard+no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Core m3-8100Y and Athlon Gold 3150U are enumerated here.

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

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Core m3-8100Y and Athlon Gold 3150U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3DDR4
Maximum memory size16 GB32 GB
Max memory channels22
Maximum memory bandwidth33.3 GB/s38.397 GB/s
ECC memory support-+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
Compare
Intel UHD Graphics 615AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 ( - 1000 MHz)
Max video memory16 GBno data
Quick Sync Video+-
Clear Video+no data
Clear Video HD+no data
Graphics max frequency900 MHzno data

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Core m3-8100Y and Athlon Gold 3150U integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported3no data
eDP+no data
DisplayPort+-
HDMI+-
DVI+no data

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Core m3-8100Y and Athlon Gold 3150U integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution support+no data
Max resolution over HDMI 1.44096x2304@24Hzno data
Max resolution over eDP3840x2160@60Hzno data
Max resolution over DisplayPort3840x2160@60Hzno data

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Core m3-8100Y and Athlon Gold 3150U integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX12no data
OpenGL4.5no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Core m3-8100Y and Athlon Gold 3150U.

PCIe version3.03.0
PCI Express lanes1012

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.

m3-8100Y 1.79
Athlon Gold 3150U 2.51
+40.2%

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.

m3-8100Y 2841
Athlon Gold 3150U 3989
+40.4%

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.

m3-8100Y 3850
+5.8%
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.

m3-8100Y 6055
Athlon Gold 3150U 7566
+25%

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.

m3-8100Y 18.57
+116%
Athlon Gold 3150U 40.13

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

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

m3-8100Y 180
Athlon Gold 3150U 352
+96.1%

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.

m3-8100Y 97
Athlon Gold 3150U 117
+21.1%

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.

m3-8100Y 1.7
Athlon Gold 3150U 2.2
+29.4%

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.

m3-8100Y 1646
+0.9%
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.  

m3-8100Y 11
Athlon Gold 3150U 22
+101%

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.  

m3-8100Y 58
Athlon Gold 3150U 107
+82.8%

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

m3-8100Y 1397
Athlon Gold 3150U 1847
+32.3%

Blender(-)

m3-8100Y 2206
+63.6%
Athlon Gold 3150U 1348

Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core

m3-8100Y 846
+12.6%
Athlon Gold 3150U 751

7-Zip Single

m3-8100Y 2983
Athlon Gold 3150U 3065
+2.8%

7-Zip

m3-8100Y 6246
Athlon Gold 3150U 8752
+40.1%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 1.79 2.51
Integrated graphics card 1.98 2.98
Recency 30 August 2018 6 January 2020
Power consumption (TDP) 5 Watt 15 Watt

m3-8100Y has 200% lower power consumption.

Athlon Gold 3150U, on the other hand, has a 40.2% higher aggregate performance score, 50.5% faster integrated GPU, and an age advantage of 1 year.

The Athlon Gold 3150U is our recommended choice as it beats the Core m3-8100Y in performance tests.


Should you still have questions on choice between Core m3-8100Y and Athlon Gold 3150U, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

Vote for your favorite

Do you think we are right or mistaken in our choice? Vote by clicking "Like" button near your favorite CPU.


Intel Core m3-8100Y
Core m3-8100Y
AMD Athlon Gold 3150U
Athlon Gold 3150U

Similar processor comparisons

We picked several similar comparisons of processors in the same market segment and performance relatively close to those reviewed on this page.

Community ratings

Here you can see how users rate the processors, as well as rate them yourself.


3.3 114 votes

Rate Core m3-8100Y on a scale of 1 to 5:

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
4 911 votes

Rate Athlon Gold 3150U on a scale of 1 to 5:

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5

Questions & comments

Here you can ask a question about Core m3-8100Y or Athlon Gold 3150U, agree or disagree with our judgements, or report an error or mismatch.