Ryzen 3 7440U vs Athlon II M300

General info

Comparing Athlon II M300 and Ryzen 3 7440U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	AMD Athlon II	AMD Phoenix (Zen 4, Ryzen 7040)
Architecture codename	Caspian (2009)	Phoenix-U (Zen 4 + Zen 4c)
Release date	10 September 2009 (14 years ago)	3 May 2023 (less than a year ago)
Current price	$40	no data

Technical specs

Athlon II M300 and Ryzen 3 7440U 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	2	8
Base clock speed	no data	3 GHz
Boost clock speed	2 GHz	4.7 GHz
Bus support	3200 MHz	no data
L1 cache	128 KB	64 KB (per core)
L2 cache	1 MB	1 MB (per core)
L3 cache	no data	8 MB (shared)
Chip lithography	45 nm	4 nm
Die size	no data	137 mm2
Maximum core temperature	no data	100 °C
Number of transistors	no data	20,900 million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	+
Unlocked multiplier	No	No

Compatibility

Information on Athlon II M300 and Ryzen 3 7440U 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	Socket S1 (S1g3)	FP7
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	28 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon II M300 and Ryzen 3 7440U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD Virtualization, DDR2 400 MHz Memory Controller	DDR5-5600/LPDDR5x-7500 RAM, PCIe 4, AES, AVX, AVX2, AVX512, FMA3, MMX (+), SHA, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4A, SSSE3
AES-NI	no data	+
AVX	no data	+
PowerNow	+	no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon II M300 and Ryzen 3 7440U are enumerated here.

AMD-V

no data

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Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon II M300 and Ryzen 3 7440U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

DDR2

DDR5, DDR5

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

no data

AMD Radeon 740M

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon II M300 and Ryzen 3 7440U.

PCIe version	no data	4.0
PCI Express lanes	no data	14

Synthetic benchmark performance

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

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Advantages and disadvantages

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Recency	10 September 2009	3 May 2023
Physical cores	2	4
Threads	2	8
Chip lithography	45 nm	4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	28 Watt

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