AMD Athlon 300GE vs AMD FX-8100

Comparative analysis of AMD Athlon 300GE and AMD FX-8100 processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Graphics, Graphics interfaces, Graphics API support, Compatibility, Peripherals, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark, Geekbench 4 - Single Core, Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon 300GE

  • CPU is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 14 nm vs 32 nm
  • 2.7x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 95 Watt
  • Around 62% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1869 vs 1151
  • Around 5% better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 4273 vs 4055
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 Jul 2019 vs October 2011
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 32 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 95 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 1869 vs 1151
PassMark - CPU mark 4273 vs 4055

Reasons to consider the AMD FX-8100

  • 6 more cores, run more applications at once: 8 vs 2
  • 2x more L1 cache, more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
  • 8x more L2 cache, more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later
  • 2x more L3 cache, more data can be stored in the L3 cache for quick access later
Number of cores 8 vs 2
L1 cache 384 KB vs 192 KB
L2 cache 8192 KB vs 1 MB
L3 cache 8192 KB (shared) vs 4 MB

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Athlon 300GE
CPU 2: AMD FX-8100

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
1869
1151
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
4273
4055
Name AMD Athlon 300GE AMD FX-8100
PassMark - Single thread mark 1869 1151
PassMark - CPU mark 4273 4055
Geekbench 4 - Single Core 1999
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core 7176

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Athlon 300GE AMD FX-8100

Essentials

Architecture codename Zen+ Zambezi
Launch date 7 Jul 2019 October 2011
OPN Tray YD30GEC6M2OFH
Place in performance rating 1357 1339
Processor Number 300GE
Vertical segment Desktop Desktop
Price now $142
Value for money (0-100) 12.48

Performance

Base frequency 3.4 GHz
L1 cache 192 KB 384 KB
L2 cache 1 MB 8192 KB
L3 cache 4 MB 8192 KB (shared)
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 32 nm
Maximum core temperature 95 °C
Number of cores 2 8
Number of GPU cores 3
Number of threads 4
Unlocked
64 bit support
Die size 315 mm
Maximum frequency 2.8 GHz
Transistor count 1200 million

Memory

ECC memory support
Max memory channels 2
Maximum memory bandwidth 39.74 GB/s
Maximum memory size 64 GB
Supported memory frequency 2667 MHz
Supported memory types DDR4-2666 DDR3

Graphics

Graphics base frequency 1100 MHz
iGPU core count 3
Number of pipelines 192
Processor graphics Radeon Vega 3 Graphics

Graphics interfaces

DisplayPort
HDMI

Graphics API support

DirectX 12
OpenGL 4.6
Vulkan

Compatibility

Sockets supported AM4 AM3+
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt 95 Watt
Max number of CPUs in a configuration 1

Peripherals

Max number of PCIe lanes 20
PCI Express revision 3.0
PCIe configurations 1x16+1x4, 2x8+1x4

Advanced Technologies

AMD GuardMI technology
AMD SenseMI
Fused Multiply-Add 3 (FMA3)
Fused Multiply-Add 4 (FMA4)
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2)
Intel® AES New Instructions
Fused Multiply-Add (FMA)

Virtualization

AMD Virtualization (AMD-V™)