AMD Athlon PRO 300U vs Intel Pentium Gold 5405U

Comparative analysis of AMD Athlon PRO 300U and Intel Pentium Gold 5405U processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Compatibility, Graphics, Graphics interfaces, Graphics image quality, Graphics API support, Peripherals, Security & Reliability, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon PRO 300U

  • CPU is newer: launch date 2 month(s) later
  • Around 43% higher clock speed: 3.3 GHz vs 2.3 GHz
  • 2x more L1 cache, more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
  • 2x more L2 cache, more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later
  • Around 47% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1931 vs 1310
  • Around 81% better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 4080 vs 2260
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 8 Apr 2019 vs 23 January 2019
Maximum frequency 3.3 GHz vs 2.3 GHz
L1 cache 128K (per core) vs 128 KB
L2 cache 512K (per core) vs 512 KB
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 1931 vs 1310
PassMark - CPU mark 4080 vs 2260

Reasons to consider the Intel Pentium Gold 5405U

  • 524288x more L3 cache, more data can be stored in the L3 cache for quick access later
L3 cache 2 MB vs 4MB (shared)

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Athlon PRO 300U
CPU 2: Intel Pentium Gold 5405U

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
1931
1310
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
4080
2260
Name AMD Athlon PRO 300U Intel Pentium Gold 5405U
PassMark - Single thread mark 1931 1310
PassMark - CPU mark 4080 2260
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 983
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 983
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1954
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1954
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3998
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3998

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Athlon PRO 300U Intel Pentium Gold 5405U

Essentials

Architecture codename Raven Ridge 2 Whiskey Lake
Launch date 8 Apr 2019 23 January 2019
Place in performance rating 1319 1341
Launch price (MSRP) $161
Processor Number 5405U
Series Intel® Pentium® Gold Processor Series
Status Launched
Vertical segment Mobile

Performance

Base frequency 2.4 GHz 2.30 GHz
L1 cache 128K (per core) 128 KB
L2 cache 512K (per core) 512 KB
L3 cache 4MB (shared) 2 MB
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 14 nm
Maximum frequency 3.3 GHz 2.3 GHz
Number of cores 2 2
Number of threads 4 4
Unlocked
64 bit support
Bus Speed 4 GT/s OPI
Maximum core temperature 100°C

Memory

ECC memory support
Supported memory types DDR4, Dual-channel DDR4-2133, LPDDR3-1866
Max memory channels 2
Maximum memory bandwidth 37.5 GB/s
Maximum memory size 32 GB

Compatibility

Max number of CPUs in a configuration 1 1
Sockets supported FP5 FCBGA1528
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 15 Watt
Configurable TDP 12.5 W
Configurable TDP-down 12.5 W
Configurable TDP-down Frequency 800 MHz
Package Size 46x24

Graphics

Device ID 0x3EA1
Graphics base frequency 300 MHz
Graphics max dynamic frequency 950 MHz
Graphics max frequency 950 MHz
Intel® Clear Video HD technology
Intel® Clear Video technology
Intel® Quick Sync Video
Max video memory 32 GB
Processor graphics Intel® UHD Graphics 610

Graphics interfaces

DisplayPort
DVI
eDP
HDMI
Number of displays supported 3

Graphics image quality

4K resolution support
Max resolution over DisplayPort 4096x2304@60Hz
Max resolution over eDP 4096x2304@60Hz
Max resolution over HDMI 1.4 4096x2304@24Hz

Graphics API support

DirectX 12
OpenGL 4.5

Peripherals

Max number of PCIe lanes 12
PCI Express revision 2.0
PCIe configurations 1x4, 2x2, 1x2+2x1 and 4x1

Security & Reliability

Execute Disable Bit (EDB)
Intel® Identity Protection technology
Intel® OS Guard
Intel® Secure Key technology
Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX)
Intel® Trusted Execution technology (TXT)

Advanced Technologies

Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® technology
Idle States
Instruction set extensions Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2
Intel 64
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
Intel® AES New Instructions
Intel® Flex Memory Access
Intel® Hyper-Threading technology
Intel® My WiFi technology
Intel® Optane™ Memory Supported
Intel® Smart Response technology
Intel® TSX-NI
Intel® Turbo Boost technology
Intel® vPro™ Platform Eligibility
Speed Shift technology
Thermal Monitoring

Virtualization

AMD Virtualization (AMD-V™)
Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x)
Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d)
Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT)