AMD Athlon Gold PRO 3150GE vs Intel Core i7-9700F

Comparative analysis of AMD Athlon Gold PRO 3150GE and Intel Core i7-9700F processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Graphics, Graphics interfaces, Compatibility, Peripherals, Advanced Technologies, Security & Reliability, Virtualization. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Physics Score, Geekbench 4 - Single Core, Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon Gold PRO 3150GE

  • CPU is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 12 nm vs 14 nm
  • Around 86% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 65 Watt
Launch date 21 Jul 2020 vs 23 April 2019
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 65 Watt

Reasons to consider the Intel Core i7-9700F

  • 4 more cores, run more applications at once: 8 vs 4
  • 4 more threads: 8 vs 4
  • Around 24% higher clock speed: 4.70 GHz vs 3.8 GHz
  • Around 5% higher maximum core temperature: 100 °C vs 95 °C
  • Around 33% more L1 cache; more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
  • 3x more L3 cache, more data can be stored in the L3 cache for quick access later
  • Around 27% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 2758 vs 2165
  • Around 89% better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 13264 vs 7006
Specifications (specs)
Number of cores 8 vs 4
Number of threads 8 vs 4
Maximum frequency 4.70 GHz vs 3.8 GHz
Maximum core temperature 100 °C vs 95 °C
L1 cache 512 KB vs 384 KB
L3 cache 12 MB vs 4 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 2758 vs 2165
PassMark - CPU mark 13264 vs 7006

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Athlon Gold PRO 3150GE
CPU 2: Intel Core i7-9700F

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
2165
2758
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
7006
13264
Name AMD Athlon Gold PRO 3150GE Intel Core i7-9700F
PassMark - Single thread mark 2165 2758
PassMark - CPU mark 7006 13264
3DMark Fire Strike - Physics Score 5225
Geekbench 4 - Single Core 1207
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core 6657

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Athlon Gold PRO 3150GE Intel Core i7-9700F

Essentials

Architecture codename Zen+ Coffee Lake
Launch date 21 Jul 2020 23 April 2019
OPN Tray YD315BC6M4MFH
Place in performance rating 1048 1074
Vertical segment Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $323, $335
Processor Number i7-9700F

Performance

Base frequency 3.3 GHz 3.00 GHz
L1 cache 384 KB 512 KB
L2 cache 2 MB 2 MB
L3 cache 4 MB 12 MB
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 14 nm
Maximum core temperature 95 °C 100 °C
Maximum frequency 3.8 GHz 4.70 GHz
Number of cores 4 8
Number of GPU cores 3
Number of threads 4 8
Unlocked
64 bit support
Bus Speed 8 GT/s DMI3

Memory

ECC memory support
Max memory channels 2 2
Supported memory types DDR4- 2933 DDR4-2666
Maximum memory bandwidth 41.6 GB/s
Maximum memory size 128 GB

Graphics

Graphics base frequency 1100 MHz
iGPU core count 3
Processor graphics Radeon Vega 3

Graphics interfaces

DisplayPort
HDMI

Compatibility

Sockets supported AM4 FCLGA1151
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt 65 Watt
Max number of CPUs in a configuration 1
Thermal Solution PCG 2015C (65W)

Peripherals

PCI Express revision 3.0 3.0
Max number of PCIe lanes 16
PCIe configurations 1x16, 2x8, 1x8+2x4
Scalability 1S Only

Advanced Technologies

AMD GuardMI technology
Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® technology
Idle States
Instruction set extensions Intel SSE4.1, Intel SSE4.2, Intel AVX2
Intel 64
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2)
Intel® AES New Instructions
Intel® Hyper-Threading technology
Intel® Optane™ Memory Supported
Intel® Stable Image Platform Program (SIPP)
Intel® TSX-NI
Intel® Turbo Boost technology
Intel® vPro™ Platform Eligibility
Thermal Monitoring

Security & Reliability

Execute Disable Bit (EDB)
Intel® Identity Protection technology
Intel® Memory Protection Extensions (Intel® MPX)
Intel® OS Guard
Intel® Secure Key technology
Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX)
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)