300 vs Athlon 64 3700+

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Primary details

Comparing Athlon 64 3700+ and 300 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance rankingnot rated1204
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processorDesktop processor
Architecture codenameSan Diego (2001−2005)no data
Release dateJanuary 2001 (23 years ago)1 January 2024 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$69no data
Current price$105 (1.5x MSRP)$90

Detailed specifications

Athlon 64 3700+ and 300 basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores1 (Single-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads14
Boost clock speed2.4 GHzno data
L1 cache128 KBno data
L2 cache1 MBno data
L3 cache0 KB6 MB Intel® Smart Cache
Chip lithography130 nmIntel 7 nm
Die size199 mm2no data
Maximum core temperatureno data100 °C
Number of transistors233 millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-no data
Unlocked multiplierNoNo

Compatibility

Information on Athlon 64 3700+ and 300 compatibility with other computer components: 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 configuration11
Socket939FCLGA1700
Power consumption (TDP)89 Wattno data

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon 64 3700+ and 300. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2
AES-NIno data+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Speed Shiftno data+
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data+
Idle Statesno data+
Thermal Monitoringno data+
Statusno dataLaunched

Security technologies

Athlon 64 3700+ and 300 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

EDBno data+
Secure Keyno data+
OS Guardno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon 64 3700+ and 300 are enumerated here.

VT-dno data+
VT-xno data+
EPTno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon 64 3700+ and 300. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR5-4800, DDR4-3200
Maximum memory sizeno data192 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
Maximum memory bandwidthno data76.8 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataIntel UHD Graphics 710
Quick Sync Videono data+
Clear Video HDno data+
Graphics max frequencyno data1.45 GHz
Execution Unitsno data16

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Athlon 64 3700+ and 300 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supportedno data4

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Athlon 64 3700+ and 300 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

Max resolution over HDMI 1.4no data4096 x 2160 @ 60Hz
Max resolution over eDPno data5120 x 3200 @ 120Hz
Max resolution over DisplayPortno data7680 x 4320 @ 60Hz

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Athlon 64 3700+ and 300 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectXno data12
OpenGLno data4.5

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon 64 3700+ and 300.

PCIe versionno data5.0 and 4.0
PCI Express lanesno data20

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


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%

Athlon 64 3700+ 394
300 7142
+1713%

300 outperforms Athlon 64 3700+ by 1713% in Passmark.

Pros & cons summary


Physical cores 1 2
Threads 1 4

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