AMD Athlon PRO 300GE vs AMD FX-8100

Comparative analysis of AMD Athlon PRO 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 PRO 300GE

  • CPU is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 12 nm vs 32 nm
  • 2.7x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 95 Watt
  • Around 66% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1911 vs 1151
  • Around 6% better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 4308 vs 4055
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 20 Sep 2019 vs October 2011
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 32 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 95 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 1911 vs 1151
PassMark - CPU mark 4308 vs 4055

Reasons to consider the AMD FX-8100

  • Processor is unlocked, an unlocked multiplier allows for easier overclocking
  • 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
Unlocked Unlocked vs Locked
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 PRO 300GE
CPU 2: AMD FX-8100

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
1911
1151
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
4308
4055
Name AMD Athlon PRO 300GE AMD FX-8100
PassMark - Single thread mark 1911 1151
PassMark - CPU mark 4308 4055
Geekbench 4 - Single Core 1999
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core 7176

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Athlon PRO 300GE AMD FX-8100

Essentials

Architecture codename Zen+ Zambezi
Launch date 20 Sep 2019 October 2011
OPN Tray YD300BC6M2OFH
Place in performance rating 1331 1343
Processor Number PRO 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 12 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™)