Athlon 300U vs Pentium 2020M

Place in performance ranking	2447	1660
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	Intel Pentium	AMD Athlon
Architecture codename	Ivy Bridge (2012−2013)	Raven Ridge 2 (2019)
Release date	1 September 2012 (11 years ago)	6 January 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$134	no data
Current price	$37 (0.3x MSRP)	$486

Detailed specifications

Pentium 2020M 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	2 (Dual-core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	2	4
Base clock speed	2.4 GHz	2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed	2.4 GHz	3.3 GHz
L1 cache	64K (per core)	128K (per core)
L2 cache	256K (per core)	512K (per core)
L3 cache	2 MB (shared)	4 MB (shared)
Chip lithography	22 nm	14 nm
Die size	118 mm²	209.78 mm²
Maximum core temperature	90 °C	no data
Number of transistors	1,400 million	4500 Million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	+
Unlocked multiplier	No	No

Compatibility

Information on Pentium 2020M 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	1	1 (Uniprocessor)
Socket	FCPGA988	FP5
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium 2020M and Athlon 300U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2	XFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT
AES-NI	-	+
AVX	no data	+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	+	no data
My WiFi	+	no data
Turbo Boost Technology	-	no data
Hyper-Threading Technology	-	no data
Idle States	+	no data
Thermal Monitoring	+	no data
Flex Memory Access	+	no data
Demand Based Switching	-	no data
FDI	+	no data
Fast Memory Access	+	no data
Status	Discontinued	no data

Security technologies

Pentium 2020M and Athlon 300U technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT	-	no data
EDB	+	no data
Anti-Theft	-	no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium 2020M and Athlon 300U are enumerated here.

AMD-V	no data	+
VT-d	-	no data
VT-x	+	no data
EPT	+	no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium 2020M and Athlon 300U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR3	DDR4 Dual-channel
Maximum memory size	32 GB	64 GB
Max memory channels	2	2
Maximum memory bandwidth	25.6 GB/s	38.397 GB/s
ECC memory support	-	+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card	Intel® HD Graphics for 3rd Generation Intel® Processors	AMD Radeon RX Vega 3
Graphics max frequency	1.1 GHz	no data

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium 2020M and Athlon 300U integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported	3	no data
eDP	+	no data
DisplayPort	+	no data
HDMI	+	no data
SDVO	+	no data
CRT	+	no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium 2020M and Athlon 300U.

PCIe version	2.0	3.0
PCI Express lanes	16	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.

Pentium 2020M 0.89

Athlon 300U 2.54
+185%

Athlon 300U outperforms Pentium 2020M by 185% 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%

Pentium 2020M 1382

Athlon 300U 3923
+184%

Athlon 300U outperforms Pentium 2020M by 184% in Passmark.

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

Benchmark coverage: 20%

Pentium 2020M 3299

Athlon 300U 3968
+20.3%

Athlon 300U outperforms Pentium 2020M by 20% in Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core.

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

Benchmark coverage: 19%

Pentium 2020M 6312

Athlon 300U 8724
+38.2%

Athlon 300U outperforms Pentium 2020M by 38% in Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core.

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%

Pentium 2020M 31.53

Athlon 300U 15.44
+104%

Pentium 2020M outperforms Athlon 300U by 104% in wPrime 32.

TrueCrypt AES

TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Pentium 2020M 0.2

Athlon 300U 1.9
+850%

Athlon 300U outperforms Pentium 2020M by 850% in TrueCrypt AES.

WinRAR 4.0

WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Pentium 2020M 1388

Athlon 300U 1623
+16.9%

Athlon 300U outperforms Pentium 2020M by 17% in WinRAR 4.0.

x264 encoding pass 2

x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Pentium 2020M 11

Athlon 300U 19
+68.2%

Athlon 300U outperforms Pentium 2020M by 68% in x264 encoding pass 2.

x264 encoding pass 1

x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Pentium 2020M 61

Athlon 300U 89
+44.5%

Athlon 300U outperforms Pentium 2020M by 45% in x264 encoding pass 1.