Athlon II X4 740 vs Athlon Gold 3150U

Place in performance ranking	1651	1951
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop processor
Series	AMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)	Athlon
Architecture codename	Dali (Zen)	Piledriver
Release date	7 January 2020 (4 years ago)	1 October 2012 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$71
Current price	$446	no data

Detailed specifications

Athlon Gold 3150U and Athlon II X4 740 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 cores	2 (Dual-core)	4 (Quad-Core)
Threads	4	4
Base clock speed	2.4 GHz	3.2 GHz
Boost clock speed	3.3 GHz	3.7 GHz
L1 cache	192 KB	192 KB
L2 cache	1 MB	4 MB
L3 cache	4 MB	no data
Chip lithography	14 nm	32 nm
Maximum core temperature	95 °C	no data
Number of transistors	4500 Million	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	+	-
Unlocked multiplier	No	No

Compatibility

Information on Athlon Gold 3150U and Athlon II X4 740 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 configuration	no data	1
Socket	FP5	Socket FM2
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	65 watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon Gold 3150U and Athlon II X4 740. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	DDR4-2400 RAM, PCIe 3, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME	no data
AES-NI	+	no data
FMA	+	no data
AVX	+	no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon Gold 3150U and Athlon II X4 740 are enumerated here.

AMD-V

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Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon Gold 3150U and Athlon II X4 740. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR4	no data
Maximum memory size	32 GB	no data
Max memory channels	2	no data
Maximum memory bandwidth	38.397 GB/s	no data
ECC memory support	+	no data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

AMD Radeon RX Vega 3

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Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon Gold 3150U and Athlon II X4 740.

PCIe version	3.0	no data
PCI Express lanes	12	no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score 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.

Athlon Gold 3150U 2.59
+49.7%

Athlon II X4 740 1.73

Athlon Gold 3150U outperforms Athlon II X4 740 by 50% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

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 Gold 3150U 4010
+49.8%

Athlon II X4 740 2677

Athlon Gold 3150U outperforms Athlon II X4 740 by 50% in Passmark.