Athlon 300U vs FX-8320E
Aggregate performance score
FX-8320E outperforms Athlon 300U by a significant 28% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
Primary details
Comparing FX-8320E and Athlon 300U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.
| Place in the ranking | 1680 | 1828 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 0.83 | no data |
| Market segment | Desktop processor | Laptop |
| Series | no data | AMD Athlon |
| Power efficiency | 3.10 | 15.30 |
| Architecture codename | Vishera (2012−2015) | Raven Ridge 2 (2019) |
| Release date | 2 September 2014 (10 years ago) | 6 January 2019 (6 years ago) |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $147 | no data |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
Performance per price, higher is better.
Detailed specifications
FX-8320E and Athlon 300U 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 | 8 (Octa-Core) | 2 (Dual-core) |
| Threads | 8 | 4 |
| Base clock speed | 3.2 GHz | 2.4 GHz |
| Boost clock speed | 4 GHz | 3.3 GHz |
| Bus type | no data | PCIe 3.0 |
| Multiplier | no data | 24 |
| L1 cache | no data | 128K (per core) |
| L2 cache | 8192 KB | 512K (per core) |
| L3 cache | no data | 4 MB (shared) |
| Chip lithography | 32 nm | 14 nm |
| Die size | 315 mm2 | 209.78 mm2 |
| Maximum core temperature | 71 °C | no data |
| Number of transistors | 1,200 million | 4940 Million |
| 64 bit support | + | + |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | + |
| Unlocked multiplier | + | - |
| P0 Vcore voltage | Min: 1.075 V - Max: 1.2875 V | no data |
Compatibility
Information on FX-8320E and Athlon 300U 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 | 1 | 1 (Uniprocessor) |
| Socket | AM3+ | FP5 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 95 Watt | 15 Watt |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by FX-8320E and Athlon 300U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | no data | XFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT |
| AES-NI | + | + |
| FMA | + | - |
| AVX | + | + |
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by FX-8320E and Athlon 300U are enumerated here.
| AMD-V | + | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by FX-8320E and Athlon 300U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR3 | DDR4 Dual-channel |
| Maximum memory size | no data | 64 GB |
| Max memory channels | no data | 2 |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | no data | 38.397 GB/s |
| ECC memory support | - | + |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.
| Integrated graphics card | On certain motherboards (Chipset feature) | AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 ( - 1000 MHz) |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by FX-8320E and Athlon 300U.
| PCIe version | n/a | 3.0 |
| PCI Express lanes | no data | 12 |
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.
Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 3.09 | 2.41 |
| Recency | 2 September 2014 | 6 January 2019 |
| Physical cores | 8 | 2 |
| Threads | 8 | 4 |
| Chip lithography | 32 nm | 14 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 95 Watt | 15 Watt |
FX-8320E has a 28.2% higher aggregate performance score, and 300% more physical cores and 100% more threads.
Athlon 300U, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, a 128.6% more advanced lithography process, and 533.3% lower power consumption.
The FX-8320E is our recommended choice as it beats the Athlon 300U in performance tests.
Note that FX-8320E is a desktop processor while Athlon 300U is a notebook one.
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