Athlon 300U vs Pentium M 735
Primary details
Comparing Pentium M 735 and Athlon 300U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | 1753 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Series | Pentium M | AMD Athlon |
| Power efficiency | no data | 15.38 |
| Architecture codename | Dothan (2004−2005) | Raven Ridge 2 (2019) |
| Release date | 10 May 2004 (20 years ago) | 6 January 2019 (5 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Pentium M 735 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 | 1 (Single-Core) | 2 (Dual-core) |
| Threads | 1 | 4 |
| Base clock speed | 1.7 GHz | 2.4 GHz |
| Boost clock speed | 1.7 GHz | 3.3 GHz |
| Bus type | no data | PCIe 3.0 |
| Bus rate | 400 MHz | no data |
| Multiplier | no data | 24 |
| L1 cache | 32 KB | 192 KB |
| L2 cache | 2 MB | 1 MB |
| L3 cache | 0 KB | 4 MB (shared) |
| Chip lithography | 90 nm | 14 nm |
| Die size | 87 mm2 | 209.78 mm2 |
| Maximum core temperature | 100 °C | no data |
| Number of transistors | 144 million | 4940 Million |
| 64 bit support | - | + |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | + |
| VID voltage range | 0.988V-1.34V | no data |
Compatibility
Information on Pentium M 735 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 | PPGA478 | FP5 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 7.5 Watt | 15 Watt |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium M 735 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 | - | + |
| AVX | - | + |
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | + | no data |
| Turbo Boost Technology | - | no data |
| Hyper-Threading Technology | - | no data |
| Idle States | - | no data |
| Demand Based Switching | - | no data |
| PAE | 32 Bit | no data |
| FSB parity | - | no data |
Security technologies
Pentium M 735 and Athlon 300U technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.
| TXT | - | no data |
| EDB | - | no data |
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium M 735 and Athlon 300U are enumerated here.
| AMD-V | - | + |
| VT-x | - | no data |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium M 735 and Athlon 300U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR2 | 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 |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium M 735 and Athlon 300U.
| PCIe version | no data | 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.
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.
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 10 May 2004 | 6 January 2019 |
| Physical cores | 1 | 2 |
| Threads | 1 | 4 |
| Chip lithography | 90 nm | 14 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 7 Watt | 15 Watt |
Pentium M 735 has 114.3% lower power consumption.
Athlon 300U, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 14 years, 100% more physical cores and 300% more threads, and a 542.9% more advanced lithography process.
We couldn't decide between Pentium M 735 and Athlon 300U. We've got no test results to judge.
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