AMD Athlon PRO 300GE vs Intel Core i9-9900

Comparative analysis of AMD Athlon PRO 300GE and Intel Core i9-9900 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, 3DMark Fire Strike - Physics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon PRO 300GE

  • CPU is newer: launch date 4 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 20 Sep 2019 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 i9-9900

  • 6 more cores, run more applications at once: 8 vs 2
  • 12 more threads: 16 vs 4
  • Around 5% higher maximum core temperature: 100 °C vs 95 °C
  • 2.7x more L1 cache, more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
  • 2x more L2 cache, more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later
  • 4x more L3 cache, more data can be stored in the L3 cache for quick access later
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 128 GB vs 64 GB
  • Around 47% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 2836 vs 1927
  • 3.7x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 16559 vs 4423
Specifications (specs)
Number of cores 8 vs 2
Number of threads 16 vs 4
Maximum core temperature 100 °C vs 95 °C
L1 cache 512 KB vs 192 KB
L2 cache 2 MB vs 1 MB
L3 cache 16 MB vs 4 MB
Maximum memory size 128 GB vs 64 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 2836 vs 1927
PassMark - CPU mark 16559 vs 4423

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Athlon PRO 300GE
CPU 2: Intel Core i9-9900

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
1927
2836
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
4423
16559
Name AMD Athlon PRO 300GE Intel Core i9-9900
PassMark - Single thread mark 1927 2836
PassMark - CPU mark 4423 16559
Geekbench 4 - Single Core 1263
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core 7913
3DMark Fire Strike - Physics Score 6750

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Athlon PRO 300GE Intel Core i9-9900

Essentials

Architecture codename Zen+ Coffee Lake
Launch date 20 Sep 2019 23 April 2019
OPN Tray YD300BC6M2OFH
Place in performance rating 1230 960
Processor Number PRO 300GE i9-9900
Vertical segment Desktop Desktop
Family Core i9
Launch price (MSRP) $439, $449

Performance

Base frequency 3.4 GHz 3.10 GHz
L1 cache 192 KB 512 KB
L2 cache 1 MB 2 MB
L3 cache 4 MB 16 MB
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 14 nm
Maximum core temperature 95 °C 100 °C
Number of cores 2 8
Number of GPU cores 3
Number of threads 4 16
Unlocked
64 bit support
Bus Speed 8 GT/s DMI3
Maximum frequency 5.00 GHz

Memory

ECC memory support
Max memory channels 2 2
Maximum memory bandwidth 39.74 GB/s 41.6 GB/s
Maximum memory size 64 GB 128 GB
Supported memory frequency 2667 MHz
Supported memory types DDR4-2666 DDR4-2666

Graphics

Graphics base frequency 1100 MHz 350 MHz
iGPU core count 3
Number of pipelines 192
Processor graphics Radeon Vega 3 Graphics Intel UHD Graphics 630
Device ID 0x3E98
Graphics max dynamic frequency 1.20 GHz
Intel® Clear Video HD technology
Intel® Clear Video technology
Intel® InTru™ 3D technology
Intel® Quick Sync Video
Max video memory 64 GB

Graphics interfaces

DisplayPort
HDMI
Number of displays supported 3

Graphics API support

DirectX 12 12
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Vulkan

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

Max number of PCIe lanes 20 16
PCI Express revision 3.0 3.0
PCIe configurations 1x16+1x4, 2x8+1x4 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® Optane™ Memory Supported
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

4K resolution support
Max resolution over DisplayPort 4096x2304@60Hz
Max resolution over eDP 4096x2304@60Hz
Max resolution over HDMI 1.4 4096x2304@24Hz

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)