Athlon II P340 vs Ryzen 5 1500X

Primary details

Comparing Ryzen 5 1500X and Athlon II P340 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking1124not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation3.11no data
Market segmentDesktop processorLaptop
SeriesAMD Ryzen 5AMD Athlon II
Power efficiency8.34no data
Architecture codenameZen (2017−2020)Champlain (2010−2011)
Release date11 April 2017 (7 years ago)4 October 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$189no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Ryzen 5 1500X and Athlon II P340 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 cores4 (Quad-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads82
Base clock speed3.5 GHzno data
Boost clock speed3.7 GHz2.2 GHz
Bus rate4 × 8 GT/s3200 MHz
Multiplier35no data
L1 cache96K (per core)256 KB
L2 cache512K (per core)1 MB
L3 cache16 MB (shared)no data
Chip lithography14 nm45 nm
Die size192 mm2no data
Number of transistors4,800 millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--
Unlocked multiplier+-

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 5 1500X and Athlon II P340 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)no data
SocketAM4S1g4
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt25 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 1500X and Athlon II P340. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsXFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMTSSE-3, SSE4A, 3DNow!, MMX, DEP, SVM
AES-NI+-
AVX+-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 5 1500X and Athlon II P340 are enumerated here.

AMD-V+-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 5 1500X and Athlon II P340. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4no data
Maximum memory size64 GBno data
Max memory channels2no data
Maximum memory bandwidth42.671 GB/sno data
ECC memory support+-

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 5 1500X and Athlon II P340.

PCIe version3.0no data
PCI Express lanes20no 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.

Ryzen 5 1500X 9104
+1193%
Athlon II P340 704

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.

Ryzen 5 1500X 1115
+496%
Athlon II P340 187

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.

Ryzen 5 1500X 3685
+1100%
Athlon II P340 307

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.

Ryzen 5 1500X 4573
+141%
Athlon II P340 1895

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.

Ryzen 5 1500X 20186
+453%
Athlon II P340 3648

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.

Ryzen 5 1500X 7403
+311%
Athlon II P340 1801

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.

Ryzen 5 1500X 6.9
+404%
Athlon II P340 34.8

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.

Ryzen 5 1500X 9
+729%
Athlon II P340 1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 April 2017 4 October 2010
Physical cores 4 2
Threads 8 2
Chip lithography 14 nm 45 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 25 Watt

Ryzen 5 1500X has an age advantage of 6 years, 100% more physical cores and 300% more threads, and a 221.4% more advanced lithography process.

Athlon II P340, on the other hand, has 160% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Ryzen 5 1500X and Athlon II P340. We've got no test results to judge.

Note that Ryzen 5 1500X is a desktop processor while Athlon II P340 is a notebook one.


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