Athlon 300U vs Ryzen 5 8500G

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Aggregate performance score

Ryzen 5 8500G
2024
6 cores / 12 threads, 65 Watt
13.94
+462%
Athlon 300U
2019
2 cores / 4 threads, 15 Watt
2.48

Ryzen 5 8500G outperforms Athlon 300U by a whopping 462% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Ryzen 5 8500G and Athlon 300U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking5391756
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Seriesno dataAMD Athlon
Power efficiency19.9215.36
Architecture codenamePhoenix2 (2024)Raven Ridge 2 (2019)
Release date8 January 2024 (less than a year ago)6 January 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$229no data

Detailed specifications

Ryzen 5 8500G 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 cores6 (Hexa-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads124
Base clock speed3.5 GHz2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed5 GHz3.3 GHz
Bus typeno dataPCIe 3.0
Multiplierno data24
L1 cache64 KB (per core)192 KB
L2 cache1 MB (per core)1 MB
L3 cache16 MB (shared)4 MB (shared)
Chip lithography4 nm14 nm
Die size137 mm2209.78 mm2
Number of transistors20,900 million4940 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibilityno data+

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 5 8500G 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 configuration11 (Uniprocessor)
SocketAM5FP5
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 8500G and Athlon 300U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataXFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT
AES-NI++
AVX++
Precision Boost 2+no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 5 8500G and Athlon 300U are enumerated here.

AMD-V++

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 5 8500G and Athlon 300U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR5DDR4 Dual-channel
Maximum memory sizeno data64 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
Maximum memory bandwidthno data38.397 GB/s
ECC memory support-+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon 740MAMD Radeon RX Vega 3

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 5 8500G and Athlon 300U.

PCIe version4.03.0
PCI Express lanes1412

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.

Ryzen 5 8500G 13.94
+462%
Athlon 300U 2.48

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 8500G 21727
+462%
Athlon 300U 3867

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 13.94 2.48
Integrated graphics card 8.32 2.98
Recency 8 January 2024 6 January 2019
Physical cores 6 2
Threads 12 4
Chip lithography 4 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 15 Watt

Ryzen 5 8500G has a 462.1% higher aggregate performance score, 179.2% faster integrated GPU, an age advantage of 5 years, 200% more physical cores and 200% more threads, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.

Athlon 300U, on the other hand, has 333.3% lower power consumption.

The Ryzen 5 8500G is our recommended choice as it beats the Athlon 300U in performance tests.


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