AMD Athlon Gold 3150U vs AMD PRO A8-9600B

Comparative analysis of AMD Athlon Gold 3150U and AMD PRO A8-9600B processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Graphics interfaces, Graphics API support, Compatibility, Peripherals, Graphics, 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 Gold 3150U

  • CPU is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 6% higher maximum core temperature: 95 °C vs 90°C
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 39% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1771 vs 1277
  • Around 68% better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 4012 vs 2385
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 6 Jan 2020 vs 10/24/2016
Maximum core temperature 95 °C vs 90°C
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 1771 vs 1277
PassMark - CPU mark 4012 vs 2385

Reasons to consider the AMD PRO A8-9600B

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

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Athlon Gold 3150U
CPU 2: AMD PRO A8-9600B

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
1771
1277
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
4012
2385
Name AMD Athlon Gold 3150U AMD PRO A8-9600B
PassMark - Single thread mark 1771 1277
PassMark - CPU mark 4012 2385
Geekbench 4 - Single Core 427
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core 1128
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 12.973
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 231.224
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.117
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 19.579
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 57.356

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Athlon Gold 3150U AMD PRO A8-9600B

Essentials

Architecture codename Zen Bristol Ridge
Launch date 6 Jan 2020 10/24/2016
OPN Tray YM3150C4T2OFG AM960BADY44AB
Place in performance rating 1355 1389
Vertical segment Laptop Laptop
Family AMD PRO A-Series Processors
OS Support Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition, RHEL x86 64-Bit, Ubuntu x86 64-Bit
Series AMD PRO A-Series A8 APU for Laptops

Performance

Base frequency 2.4 GHz 2.4 GHz
L1 cache 192 KB
L2 cache 1 MB 2 MB
L3 cache 4 MB
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Maximum core temperature 95 °C 90°C
Maximum frequency 3.3 GHz 3.3 GHz
Number of cores 2 4
Number of GPU cores 3 6
Number of threads 4 4
Unlocked
64 bit support
Die size 250 mm
Transistor count 3100 Million

Memory

ECC memory support
Max memory channels 2 2
Maximum memory bandwidth 35.76 GB/s
Maximum memory size 32 GB
Supported memory types DDR4-2400 DDR4
Supported memory frequency 1866 MHz

Graphics interfaces

DisplayPort
HDMI

Graphics API support

DirectX 12 12
OpenGL 4.6
Vulkan

Compatibility

Configurable TDP 12-25 Watt 12 Watt/15 Watt
Sockets supported FP5 FP4
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 15 Watt

Peripherals

Max number of PCIe lanes 12 8
PCI Express revision 3.0 3.0
PCIe configurations 1x8+1x4

Graphics

Enduro
Graphics max frequency 720 MHz
iGPU core count 6
Processor graphics R5
Switchable graphics
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Codec Engine (VCE)

Advanced Technologies

AMD Secure technology
DualGraphics
Enhanced Virus Protection (EVP)
Frame Rate Target Control (FRTC)
FreeSync
Fused Multiply-Add (FMA)
Fused Multiply-Add 4 (FMA4)
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
Intel® AES New Instructions
Out-of-band client management
PowerGating
PowerNow
PowerTune
RAID
System Image Stability
TrueAudio
VirusProtect

Virtualization

AMD Virtualization (AMD-V™)
IOMMU 2.0