AMD Athlon 300GE vs AMD PRO A8-8650B

Comparative analysis of AMD Athlon 300GE and AMD PRO A8-8650B 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon 300GE

  • Processor is unlocked, an unlocked multiplier allows for easier overclocking
  • Around 33% higher maximum core temperature: 95 °C vs 71.30°C
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 86% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 65 Watt
  • Around 25% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1869 vs 1493
  • Around 33% better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 4273 vs 3208
Specifications (specs)
Unlocked Unlocked vs Locked
Maximum core temperature 95 °C vs 71.30°C
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 65 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 1869 vs 1493
PassMark - CPU mark 4273 vs 3208

Reasons to consider the AMD PRO A8-8650B

  • 2 more cores, run more applications at once: 4 vs 2
  • 4x more L2 cache, more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later
Number of cores 4 vs 2
L2 cache 4 MB vs 1 MB

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Athlon 300GE
CPU 2: AMD PRO A8-8650B

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
1869
1493
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
4273
3208
Name AMD Athlon 300GE AMD PRO A8-8650B
PassMark - Single thread mark 1869 1493
PassMark - CPU mark 4273 3208
Geekbench 4 - Single Core 532
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core 1606
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 13.225
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 219.246
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.052
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 21.042
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 64.844

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Athlon 300GE AMD PRO A8-8650B

Essentials

Architecture codename Zen+
Launch date 7 Jul 2019
OPN Tray YD30GEC6M2OFH AD865BYBI44JC
Place in performance rating 1359 1363
Processor Number 300GE
Vertical segment Desktop Desktop
Family AMD PRO A-Series Processors
OS Support Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition, Windows 7 - 64-Bit Edition, RHEL x86 64-Bit, Ubuntu x86 64-Bit
Series AMD PRO A-Series A8 APU for Desktops

Performance

Base frequency 3.4 GHz 3.2 GHz
L1 cache 192 KB
L2 cache 1 MB 4 MB
L3 cache 4 MB
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Maximum core temperature 95 °C 71.30°C
Number of cores 2 4
Number of GPU cores 3 6
Number of threads 4 4
Unlocked
Compute Cores 10
Maximum frequency 3.9 GHz

Memory

ECC memory support
Max memory channels 2 2
Maximum memory bandwidth 39.74 GB/s
Maximum memory size 64 GB
Supported memory frequency 2667 MHz 2133 MHz
Supported memory types DDR4-2666

Graphics

Graphics base frequency 1100 MHz
iGPU core count 3 384
Number of pipelines 192
Processor graphics Radeon Vega 3 Graphics AMD Radeon R7 Graphics
Enduro
Graphics max frequency 757 MHz
Switchable graphics
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Codec Engine (VCE)

Graphics interfaces

DisplayPort
HDMI

Graphics API support

DirectX 12 12
OpenGL 4.6
Vulkan

Compatibility

Sockets supported AM4 FM2+
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt 65 Watt
Configurable TDP 45 Watt/65 Watt

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
AMD App Acceleration
AMD Elite Experiences
AMD HD3D technology
AMD Mantle API
DualGraphics
Enhanced Virus Protection (EVP)
FreeSync
Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA)
Out-of-band client management
PowerGating
PowerNow
PowerTune
RAID
System Image Stability
TrueAudio

Virtualization

AMD Virtualization (AMD-V™)
IOMMU 2.0