AMD Athlon 300U vs Intel Core i7-4860EQ

Comparative analysis of AMD Athlon 300U and Intel Core i7-4860EQ processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Graphics, Graphics interfaces, Graphics API support, Compatibility, Advanced Technologies, Peripherals, Security & Reliability, Virtualization. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark, 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), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon 300U

  • Around 3% higher clock speed: 3.3 GHz vs 3.2 GHz
  • Around 5% higher maximum core temperature: 105°C vs 100 °C
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 14 nm vs 22 nm
  • 3.1x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 47 Watt
  • Around 1% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1774 vs 1754
Specifications (specs)
Maximum frequency 3.3 GHz vs 3.2 GHz
Maximum core temperature 105°C vs 100 °C
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 22 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 47 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 1774 vs 1754

Reasons to consider the Intel Core i7-4860EQ

  • 2 more cores, run more applications at once: 4 vs 2
  • 4 more threads: 8 vs 4
  • Around 33% more L1 cache; more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
  • 2x more L3 cache, more data can be stored in the L3 cache for quick access later
  • Around 42% better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 5500 vs 3867
Specifications (specs)
Number of cores 4 vs 2
Number of threads 8 vs 4
L1 cache 64 KB (per core) vs 193 KB
L3 cache 8192 KB (shared) vs 4 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - CPU mark 5500 vs 3867

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Athlon 300U
CPU 2: Intel Core i7-4860EQ

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
1774
1754
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
3867
5500
Name AMD Athlon 300U Intel Core i7-4860EQ
PassMark - Single thread mark 1774 1754
PassMark - CPU mark 3867 5500
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 143.214
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.101
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 14.262
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 25.733
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 11.798

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Athlon 300U Intel Core i7-4860EQ

Essentials

Family AMD Athlon Processors
OPN Tray YM300UC4T2OFG
Place in performance rating 1456 1458
Series AMD Athlon Mobile Processors with Radeon Vega Graphics
Vertical segment Laptop Laptop
Architecture codename Crystal Well
Launch date August 2013

Performance

Base frequency 2.4 GHz
Compute Cores 5
L1 cache 193 KB 64 KB (per core)
L2 cache 1 MB 256 KB (per core)
L3 cache 4 MB 8192 KB (shared)
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 22 nm
Maximum core temperature 105°C 100 °C
Maximum frequency 3.3 GHz 3.2 GHz
Number of cores 2 4
Number of GPU cores 3
Number of threads 4 8
Unlocked
64 bit support
Die size 264 mm
Maximum case temperature (TCase) 100 °C
Transistor count 1400 million

Memory

Max memory channels 2 2
Supported memory frequency 2400 MHz
ECC memory support
Maximum memory bandwidth 25.6 GB / s
Maximum memory size 32 GB
Supported memory types DDR3L-1333, DDR3L-1600

Graphics

Graphics max frequency 1000 MHz 1 GHz
iGPU core count 3
Processor graphics Radeon Vega 3 Graphics Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200
Intel® Clear Video HD technology
Intel® InTru™ 3D technology
Intel® Quick Sync Video

Graphics interfaces

DisplayPort
HDMI
eDP
Number of displays supported 3
VGA

Graphics API support

DirectX 12

Compatibility

Sockets supported FP5 FCBGA1364
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 47 Watt
Max number of CPUs in a configuration 1

Advanced Technologies

AMD SenseMI
FreeSync
Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® technology
Flexible Display interface (FDI)
Idle States
Instruction set extensions SSE4.1 / 4.2, AVX 2.0
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
Intel® AES New Instructions
Intel® Hyper-Threading technology
Intel® Turbo Boost technology
Intel® vPro™ Platform Eligibility
Thermal Monitoring

Peripherals

Max number of PCIe lanes 16
PCI Express revision 3.0

Security & Reliability

Anti-Theft technology
Execute Disable Bit (EDB)
Intel® Identity Protection technology
Intel® Secure Key technology
Intel® Trusted Execution technology (TXT)

Virtualization

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