Athlon 300U vs Pentium M 735

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Aggregate performance score

Pentium M 735
2004
1 core / 1 thread, 7 Watt
0.18
Athlon 300U
2019
2 cores / 4 threads, 15 Watt
2.43
+1250%

Athlon 300U outperforms Pentium M 735 by a whopping 1250% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Pentium M 735 and Athlon 300U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking32621771
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesPentium MAMD Athlon
Power efficiency0.8115.33
Architecture codenameDothan (2004−2005)Raven Ridge 2 (2019)
Release date10 May 2004 (20 years ago)6 January 2019 (5 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium M 735 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 cores1 (Single-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads14
Base clock speed1.7 GHz2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed1.7 GHz3.3 GHz
Bus typeno dataPCIe 3.0
Bus rate400 MHzno data
Multiplierno data24
L1 cache32 KB128K (per core)
L2 cache2 MB512K (per core)
L3 cache0 KB4 MB (shared)
Chip lithography90 nm14 nm
Die size87 mm2209.78 mm2
Maximum core temperature100 °Cno data
Number of transistors144 million4940 Million
64 bit support-+
Windows 11 compatibility-+
VID voltage range0.988V-1.34Vno data

Compatibility

Information on Pentium M 735 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 configuration11 (Uniprocessor)
SocketPPGA478FP5
Power consumption (TDP)7.5 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium M 735 and Athlon 300U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataXFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT
AES-NI-+
AVX-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+no data
Turbo Boost Technology-no data
Hyper-Threading Technology-no data
Idle States-no data
Demand Based Switching-no data
PAE32 Bitno data
FSB parity-no data

Security technologies

Pentium M 735 and Athlon 300U technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-no data
EDB-no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium M 735 and Athlon 300U are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+
VT-x-no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium M 735 and Athlon 300U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR2DDR4 Dual-channel
Maximum memory sizeno data64 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
Maximum memory bandwidthno data38.397 GB/s
ECC memory support-+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardOn certain motherboards (Chipset feature)AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 ( - 1000 MHz)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium M 735 and Athlon 300U.

PCIe versionno data3.0
PCI Express lanesno data12

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 M 735 0.18
Athlon 300U 2.43
+1250%

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.

Pentium M 735 1459
Athlon 300U 3968
+172%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 0.18 2.43
Recency 10 May 2004 6 January 2019
Physical cores 1 2
Threads 1 4
Chip lithography 90 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 7 Watt 15 Watt

Pentium M 735 has 114.3% lower power consumption.

Athlon 300U, on the other hand, has a 1250% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 14 years, 100% more physical cores and 300% more threads, and a 542.9% more advanced lithography process.

The Athlon 300U is our recommended choice as it beats the Pentium M 735 in performance tests.


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