AMD Athlon PRO 300GE vs Intel Core i5-4690S

Comparative analysis of AMD Athlon PRO 300GE and Intel Core i5-4690S processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Graphics, Graphics interfaces, Graphics API support, Compatibility, Peripherals, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization, Graphics image quality, Security & Reliability. 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon PRO 300GE

  • Around 33% higher maximum core temperature: 95 °C vs 71.35°C
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 12 nm vs 22 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 64 GB vs 32 GB
  • Around 86% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 65 Watt
Maximum core temperature 95 °C vs 71.35°C
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 22 nm
Maximum memory size 64 GB vs 32 GB
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 65 Watt

Reasons to consider the Intel Core i5-4690S

  • 2 more cores, run more applications at once: 4 vs 2
  • Around 15% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 2202 vs 1911
  • Around 28% better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 5527 vs 4308
Specifications (specs)
Number of cores 4 vs 2
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 2202 vs 1911
PassMark - CPU mark 5527 vs 4308

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Athlon PRO 300GE
CPU 2: Intel Core i5-4690S

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
1911
2202
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
4308
5527
Name AMD Athlon PRO 300GE Intel Core i5-4690S
PassMark - Single thread mark 1911 2202
PassMark - CPU mark 4308 5527
Geekbench 4 - Single Core 934
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core 2977
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 3.184
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 72.502
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.415
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 0.529
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 5.945
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1370
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3704
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 5396
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1370
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3704
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 5396

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Athlon PRO 300GE Intel Core i5-4690S

Essentials

Architecture codename Zen+ Haswell
Launch date 20 Sep 2019 Q2'14
OPN Tray YD300BC6M2OFH
Place in performance rating 1329 1317
Processor Number PRO 300GE i5-4690S
Vertical segment Desktop Desktop
Series 4th Generation Intel® Core™ i5 Processors
Status Discontinued

Performance

Base frequency 3.4 GHz 3.20 GHz
L1 cache 192 KB
L2 cache 1 MB
L3 cache 4 MB
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 22 nm
Maximum core temperature 95 °C 71.35°C
Number of cores 2 4
Number of GPU cores 3
Number of threads 4 4
Unlocked
64 bit support
Bus Speed 5 GT/s DMI2
Maximum frequency 3.90 GHz

Memory

ECC memory support
Max memory channels 2 2
Maximum memory bandwidth 39.74 GB/s 25.6 GB/s
Maximum memory size 64 GB 32 GB
Supported memory frequency 2667 MHz
Supported memory types DDR4-2666 DDR3-1333/1600, DDR3L-1333/1600 @ 1.5V

Graphics

Graphics base frequency 1100 MHz 350 MHz
iGPU core count 3
Number of pipelines 192
Processor graphics Radeon Vega 3 Graphics Intel® HD Graphics 4600
Device ID 0x412
Graphics max dynamic frequency 1.20 GHz
Intel® Clear Video HD technology
Intel® Flexible Display Interface (Intel® FDI)
Intel® InTru™ 3D technology
Intel® Quick Sync Video
Max video memory 2 GB

Graphics interfaces

DisplayPort
HDMI
eDP
Number of displays supported 3
VGA

Graphics API support

DirectX 12 11.2/12
OpenGL 4.6 4.3
Vulkan

Compatibility

Sockets supported AM4 FCLGA1150
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt 65 Watt
Low Halogen Options Available
Max number of CPUs in a configuration 1
Package Size 37.5mm x 37.5mm
Thermal Solution PCG 2013C

Peripherals

Max number of PCIe lanes 20 16
PCI Express revision 3.0 Up to 3.0
PCIe configurations 1x16+1x4, 2x8+1x4 Up to 1x16, 2x8, 1x8+2x4
Scalability 1S Only

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
Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® technology
Idle States
Instruction set extensions Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2
Intel 64
Intel® Hyper-Threading technology
Intel® My WiFi technology
Intel® Stable Image Platform Program (SIPP)
Intel® TSX-NI
Intel® Turbo Boost technology
Intel® vPro™ Platform Eligibility
Thermal Monitoring

Virtualization

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

Graphics image quality

Max resolution over DisplayPort 3840x2160@60Hz
Max resolution over eDP 3840x2160@60Hz
Max resolution over HDMI 1.4 4096x2304@24Hz
Max resolution over VGA 1920x1200@60Hz

Security & Reliability

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