AMD Athlon PRO 300U: specs and benchmarks
Aggregated performance score
Athlon PRO 300U provides poor benchmark performance at 2.64% of a leader's which is a 96-core Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX.
Summary
AMD started Athlon PRO 300U sales 8 April 2019. This is a Raven Ridge 2 architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 2 cores and 4 threads, and is based on 14 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3300 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket FP5 processor with a TDP of 15 Watt. It supports DDR4 Dual-channel memory.
Primary details
Athlon PRO 300U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in performance ranking | 1617 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Series | AMD Athlon | |
| Architecture codename | Raven Ridge 2 (2019) | |
| Release date | 8 April 2019 (5 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
| Physical cores | 2 (Dual-core) | |
| Threads | 4 | |
| Base clock speed | 2.4 GHz | of 4.7 (Ryzen 9 7900X) |
| Boost clock speed | 3.3 GHz | of 6.2 (Core i9-14900KS) |
| L1 cache | 128K (per core) | of 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core) |
| L2 cache | 512K (per core) | of 98304 (Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX) |
| L3 cache | 4 MB (shared) | of 768 (EPYC 7773X) |
| Chip lithography | 14 nm | of 3 (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
| Die size | 209.78 mm2 | |
| Number of transistors | 4500 Million | of 92000 (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | + | |
| Unlocked multiplier | No |
Compatibility
Information on Athlon PRO 300U compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.
| Number of CPUs in a configuration | 1 (Uniprocessor) | of 8 (Xeon Platinum 8454H) |
| Socket | FP5 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | of 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Athlon PRO 300U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | XFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT | |
| AES-NI | + | |
| AVX | + |
Virtualization technologies
Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.
| AMD-V | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Athlon PRO 300U's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR4 Dual-channel | |
| Maximum memory size | 32 GB | of 786 (Xeon E5-2670 v3) |
| Max memory channels | 2 | of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221) |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 38.397 GB/s | of 460.8 (EPYC 9654) |
| ECC memory support | + |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into Athlon PRO 300U.
| Integrated graphics card | AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.
| PCIe version | 3.0 | of 5 (Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX) |
| PCI Express lanes | 12 | of 128 (EPYC 9654) |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Athlon PRO 300U. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.
Benchmark coverage: 68%
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Intel equivalent
According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Athlon PRO 300U is Core i7-7660U, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 4 positions in our ranking.
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Recommended GPUs
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