Ryzen 3 4300U vs Pentium 987

Primary details

Comparing Pentium 987 and Ryzen 3 4300U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated1272
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel PentiumAMD Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU)
Power efficiencyno data17.72
Architecture codenameSandy Bridge (2011−2013)Renoir-U (Zen 2) (2020−2021)
Release date1 February 2013 (11 years ago)6 January 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$134no data

Detailed specifications

Pentium 987 and Ryzen 3 4300U 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)4 (Quad-Core)
Threads24
Base clock speed1.5 GHz2.7 GHz
Boost clock speed1.5 GHz3.7 GHz
Bus typeDMI 2.0no data
Bus rate4 × 5 GT/sno data
Multiplier1527
L1 cache64K (per core)128K (per core)
L2 cache256K (per core)512K (per core)
L3 cache2 MB (shared)4 MB (shared)
Chip lithography32 nm7 nm
Die size131 mm2156 mm2
Maximum core temperature100 °C105 °C
Number of transistors504 million9800 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on Pentium 987 and Ryzen 3 4300U 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 configuration1 (Uniprocessor)1
SocketFCBGA1023FP6
Power consumption (TDP)17 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium 987 and Ryzen 3 4300U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME
AES-NI-+
FMA++
AVX-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+no data
My WiFi-no data
Turbo Boost Technology-no data
Hyper-Threading Technology-no data
Idle States+no data
Thermal Monitoring+-
Flex Memory Access+no data
Demand Based Switching-no data
FDI+no data
Fast Memory Access+no data

Security technologies

Pentium 987 and Ryzen 3 4300U technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-no data
EDB+no data
Anti-Theft-no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium 987 and Ryzen 3 4300U 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 Pentium 987 and Ryzen 3 4300U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3DDR4
Maximum memory size16.38 GB64 GB
Max memory channels2no data
Maximum memory bandwidth21.335 GB/s68.27 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardIntel® HD Graphics for 2nd Generation Intel® ProcessorsAMD Radeon RX Vega 5
Graphics max frequency1 GHzno data

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium 987 and Ryzen 3 4300U integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported2no data
eDP+no data
DisplayPort+-
HDMI+-
SDVO+no data
CRT+no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium 987 and Ryzen 3 4300U.

PCIe version2.03.0
PCI Express lanes16no data

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.

Pentium 987 657
Ryzen 3 4300U 7440
+1032%

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.

Pentium 987 228
Ryzen 3 4300U 1267
+456%

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.

Pentium 987 392
Ryzen 3 4300U 3397
+767%

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.

Pentium 987 1487
Ryzen 3 4300U 6068
+308%

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.

Pentium 987 0.1
Ryzen 3 4300U 3.2
+3100%

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.

Pentium 987 1107
Ryzen 3 4300U 2397
+117%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 February 2013 6 January 2020
Physical cores 2 4
Threads 2 4
Chip lithography 32 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 17 Watt 15 Watt

Ryzen 3 4300U has an age advantage of 6 years, 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads, a 357.1% more advanced lithography process, and 13.3% lower power consumption.

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