AMD Athlon PRO 300GE vs AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X

Comparative analysis of AMD Athlon PRO 300GE and AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X 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, 3DMark Fire Strike - Physics Score, 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 PRO 300GE

  • CPU is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 40% higher maximum core temperature: 95 °C vs 68°C
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 12 nm vs 14 nm
  • 5.1x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 180 Watt
Launch date 20 Sep 2019 vs 31 July 2017
Maximum core temperature 95 °C vs 68°C
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 180 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X

  • Processor is unlocked, an unlocked multiplier allows for easier overclocking
  • 14 more cores, run more applications at once: 16 vs 2
  • 28 more threads: 32 vs 4
  • 8x 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
  • 8x more L3 cache, more data can be stored in the L3 cache for quick access later
  • Around 18% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 2276 vs 1927
  • 6.2x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 27575 vs 4423
Specifications (specs)
Unlocked Unlocked vs Locked
Number of cores 16 vs 2
Number of threads 32 vs 4
L1 cache 1536 KB vs 192 KB
L2 cache 8 MB vs 1 MB
L3 cache 32 MB vs 4 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 2276 vs 1927
PassMark - CPU mark 27575 vs 4423

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Athlon PRO 300GE
CPU 2: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
1927
2276
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
4423
27575
Name AMD Athlon PRO 300GE AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X
PassMark - Single thread mark 1927 2276
PassMark - CPU mark 4423 27575
Geekbench 4 - Single Core 979
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core 10462
3DMark Fire Strike - Physics Score 7423
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 20.348
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 60.995
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.579
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 3.322
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 26.299

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Athlon PRO 300GE AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X

Essentials

Architecture codename Zen+ Zen
Launch date 20 Sep 2019 31 July 2017
OPN Tray YD300BC6M2OFH YD195XA8UGAAE
Place in performance rating 1222 1241
Processor Number PRO 300GE
Vertical segment Desktop Desktop
Family AMD Ryzen Processors
Launch price (MSRP) $999
OPN PIB YD195XA8AEWOF
OS Support Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition, RHEL x86 64-Bit, Ubuntu x86 64-Bit
Price now $652.56
Series AMD Ryzen Threadripper Processors
Value for money (0-100) 9.96

Performance

Base frequency 3.4 GHz 3.4 GHz
L1 cache 192 KB 1536 KB
L2 cache 1 MB 8 MB
L3 cache 4 MB 32 MB
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 14 nm
Maximum core temperature 95 °C 68°C
Number of cores 2 16
Number of GPU cores 3
Number of threads 4 32
Unlocked
64 bit support
Die size 213 mm
Maximum frequency 4 GHz
Transistor count 9600 million

Memory

ECC memory support
Max memory channels 2 4
Maximum memory bandwidth 39.74 GB/s
Maximum memory size 64 GB
Supported memory frequency 2667 MHz 2667 MHz
Supported memory types DDR4-2666 DDR4

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 sTR4
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt 180 Watt
Max number of CPUs in a configuration 1
Thermal Solution Not included

Peripherals

Max number of PCIe lanes 20
PCI Express revision 3.0 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 Ryzen VR-Ready Premium
Enmotus FuzeDrive
The "Zen" Core Architecture

Virtualization

AMD Virtualization (AMD-V™)