A9-9420e vs Athlon PRO 300GE
Aggregate performance score
Athlon PRO 300GE outperforms A9-9420e by a whopping 297% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
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Primary details
Comparing processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.
| Place in the ranking | 1953 | 2996 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Market segment | Desktop processor | Laptop |
| Series | AMD Athlon | AMD Bristol Ridge |
| Power efficiency | 2.99 | 1.76 |
| Designer | AMD | AMD |
| Architecture codename | Zen+ (2018−2019) | Stoney Ridge (2016−2019) |
| Release date | 30 September 2019 (6 years ago) | 1 June 2018 (7 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Athlon PRO 300GE and A9-9420e 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) | 2 (Dual-core) |
| Threads | 4 | 2 |
| Boost clock speed | 3.4 GHz | no data |
| Multiplier | 34 | no data |
| L1 cache | 192 KB | no data |
| L2 cache | 1 MB | 1 MB |
| L3 cache | 4 MB | no data |
| Chip lithography | 12 nm | 28 nm |
| Die size | 209.78 mm2 | 124.5 mm2 |
| Maximum core temperature | no data | 90 °C |
| Number of transistors | 4950 Million | 1200 Million |
| 64 bit support | + | + |
| Windows 11 compatibility | + | - |
Compatibility
Information on Athlon PRO 300GE and A9-9420e 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 | 1 (Uniprocessor) | no data |
| Socket | Socket AM4 | BGA |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 35 Watt | 15 Watt |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon PRO 300GE and A9-9420e. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | no data | Virtualization, |
| AES-NI | + | - |
| FMA | + | - |
| AVX | + | - |
| Precision Boost 2 | + | no data |
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon PRO 300GE and A9-9420e are enumerated here.
| AMD-V | + | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon PRO 300GE and A9-9420e. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR4-2666 | DDR4 |
| Maximum memory size | 64 GB | no data |
| Max memory channels | 2 | no data |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 42.671 GB/s | no data |
| ECC memory support | + | - |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.
| Integrated graphics card | AMD Radeon Vega 3 | AMD Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge) |
Synthetic benchmarks
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.
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. Other than that, Passmark measures multi-core performance.
Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 2.46 | 0.62 |
| Integrated graphics card | 2.75 | 1.33 |
| Recency | 30 September 2019 | 1 June 2018 |
| Threads | 4 | 2 |
| Chip lithography | 12 nm | 28 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 35 Watt | 15 Watt |
Athlon PRO 300GE has a 296.8% higher aggregate performance score, 106.8% faster integrated GPU, an age advantage of 1 year, 100% more threads, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.
A9-9420e, on the other hand, has 133.3% lower power consumption.
The AMD Athlon PRO 300GE is our recommended choice as it beats the AMD A9-9420e in performance tests.
Note that Athlon PRO 300GE is a desktop processor while A9-9420e is a notebook one.
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