PRO A8-8650B vs Athlon Gold 3150U

Place in the ranking	1741	1912
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop processor
Series	AMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)	no data
Power efficiency	15.84	2.94
Architecture codename	Dali (Zen) (2020)	Godaveri (2014−2016)
Release date	6 January 2020 (4 years ago)	29 September 2015 (9 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Athlon Gold 3150U and PRO A8-8650B 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	3.9 GHz
Multiplier	24	no data
L1 cache	192 KB	no data
L2 cache	1 MB	4096 KB
L3 cache	4 MB	no data
Chip lithography	14 nm	28 nm
Die size	no data	245 mm²
Maximum core temperature	95 °C	71 °C
Maximum case temperature (TCase)	no data	72 °C
Number of transistors	4500 Million	2,411 million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	+	no data

Compatibility

Information on Athlon Gold 3150U and PRO A8-8650B 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	FM2+
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	65 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon Gold 3150U and PRO A8-8650B. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	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	+	+
FMA	+	+
AVX	+	+
FRTC	-	+
FreeSync	-	+
PowerTune	-	+
DualGraphics	-	+
TrueAudio	-	+
PowerNow	-	+
PowerGating	-	+
Out-of-band client management	-	+
VirusProtect	-	+
RAID	-	+
HSA	-	+
Precision Boost 2	+	no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon Gold 3150U and PRO A8-8650B are enumerated here.

AMD-V	+	+
IOMMU 2.0	-	+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon Gold 3150U and PRO A8-8650B. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR4	DDR3-2133
Maximum memory size	32 GB	no data
Max memory channels	2	2
Maximum memory bandwidth	38.397 GB/s	no data
ECC memory support	+	-

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card Compare	AMD Radeon RX Vega 3	AMD Radeon R7 Graphics
iGPU core count	no data	6
Number of pipelines	no data	384
Enduro	-	+
Switchable graphics	-	+
UVD	-	+
VCE	-	+

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Athlon Gold 3150U and PRO A8-8650B integrated GPUs.

DisplayPort	-	+
HDMI	-	+

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Athlon Gold 3150U and PRO A8-8650B integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX	no data	DirectX® 12
Vulkan	-	+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon Gold 3150U and PRO A8-8650B.

PCIe version	3.0	3.0
PCI Express lanes	12	16

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 2.51
+24.3%

PRO A8-8650B 2.02

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.

Athlon Gold 3150U 3989
+24.3%

PRO A8-8650B 3208

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Athlon Gold 3150U 814
+86.3%

PRO A8-8650B 437

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Athlon Gold 3150U 1669
+63.8%

PRO A8-8650B 1019

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	2.51	2.02
Recency	6 January 2020	29 September 2015
Physical cores	2	4
Chip lithography	14 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	65 Watt

Athlon Gold 3150U has a 24.3% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 4 years, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 333.3% lower power consumption.

PRO A8-8650B, on the other hand, has 100% more physical cores.

The Athlon Gold 3150U is our recommended choice as it beats the PRO A8-8650B in performance tests.

Be aware that Athlon Gold 3150U is a notebook processor while PRO A8-8650B is a desktop one.

Should you still have questions on choice between Athlon Gold 3150U and PRO A8-8650B, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.