Athlon 300U vs FX-9800P
Aggregate performance score
Athlon 300U outperforms FX-9800P by an impressive 54% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
Primary details
Comparing FX-9800P and Athlon 300U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.
Place in performance ranking | 1988 | 1660 |
Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
Series | AMD Bristol Ridge | AMD Athlon |
Architecture codename | Bristol Ridge (2016−2019) | Raven Ridge 2 (2019) |
Release date | 1 June 2016 (8 years ago) | 6 January 2019 (5 years ago) |
Current price | $926 | $486 |
Detailed specifications
FX-9800P and Athlon 300U 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 | 4 (Quad-Core) | 2 (Dual-core) |
Threads | 4 | 4 |
Base clock speed | 2.7 GHz | 2.4 GHz |
Boost clock speed | 3.6 GHz | 3.3 GHz |
L1 cache | no data | 128K (per core) |
L2 cache | 2 MB | 512K (per core) |
L3 cache | no data | 4 MB (shared) |
Chip lithography | 28 nm | 14 nm |
Die size | 250 mm2 | 209.78 mm2 |
Maximum core temperature | 90 °C | no data |
Number of transistors | 3100 Million | 4500 Million |
64 bit support | + | + |
Windows 11 compatibility | - | + |
Unlocked multiplier | No | No |
Compatibility
Information on FX-9800P and Athlon 300U 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 (Uniprocessor) |
Socket | no data | FP5 |
Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | 15 Watt |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by FX-9800P and Athlon 300U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
Instruction set extensions | Dual-Channel DDR3/DDR4-1866 Memory Controller, PCIe 3.0 x8 | XFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT |
AES-NI | no data | + |
AVX | no data | + |
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by FX-9800P and Athlon 300U are enumerated here.
AMD-V | no data | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by FX-9800P and Athlon 300U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.
Supported memory types | DDR3, DDR4 | DDR4 Dual-channel |
Maximum memory size | no data | 64 GB |
Max memory channels | no data | 2 |
Maximum memory bandwidth | no data | 38.397 GB/s |
ECC memory support | no data | + |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.
Integrated graphics card Compare | AMD Radeon R7 (Bristol Ridge) | AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by FX-9800P and Athlon 300U.
PCIe version | no data | 3.0 |
PCI Express lanes | no data | 12 |
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 300U outperforms FX-9800P by 54% 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 300U outperforms FX-9800P by 54% in Passmark.
wPrime 32
wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.
Benchmark coverage: 18%
Athlon 300U outperforms FX-9800P by 7% in wPrime 32.
Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core
Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.
Benchmark coverage: 15%
Athlon 300U outperforms FX-9800P by 31% in Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core.
Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core
Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.
Benchmark coverage: 14%
Athlon 300U outperforms FX-9800P by 61% in Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core.
Pros & cons summary
Performance score | 1.65 | 2.54 |
Integrated graphics card | 1.95 | 2.98 |
Recency | 1 June 2016 | 6 January 2019 |
Physical cores | 4 | 2 |
Chip lithography | 28 nm | 14 nm |
The Athlon 300U is our recommended choice as it beats the FX-9800P in performance tests.
Should you still have questions on choice between FX-9800P and Athlon 300U, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.
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