Athlon Gold 3150U vs Ryzen 3 1200

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Aggregated performance score

Ryzen 3 1200
2017
4 cores / 4 threads
4.14
+59.8%
Athlon Gold 3150U
2020
2 cores / 4 threads
2.59

Ryzen 3 1200 outperforms Athlon Gold 3150U by 60% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

Primary Details

Comparing Ryzen 3 1200 and Athlon Gold 3150U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance ranking12981620
Place by popularity78not in top-100
Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation7.76no data
Market segmentDesktop processorLaptop
SeriesAMD Ryzen 3AMD Picasso (Ryzen 3000 APU)
Architecture codenameSummit Ridge (Zen)Dali (Zen)
Release date27 July 2017 (6 years ago)7 January 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$109no data
Current price$105 (1x MSRP)$446

Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

no data

Detailed Specifications

Ryzen 3 1200 and Athlon Gold 3150U 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 cores4 (Quad-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads44
Base clock speed3.1 GHz2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed3.4 GHz3.3 GHz
L1 cache96K (per core)192 KB
L2 cache512K (per core)1 MB
L3 cache8 MB (shared)4 MB
Chip lithography14 nm14 nm
Die size192 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature95 °C95 °C
Number of transistors4,800 million4500 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+
Unlocked multiplierYesNo

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 3 1200 and Athlon Gold 3150U 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 configuration1 (Uniprocessor)no data
SocketAM4FP5
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 3 1200 and Athlon Gold 3150U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsDDR4-2667 RAM, PCIe 3, MMX (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4A, AES, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, SHADDR4-2400 RAM, PCIe 3, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME
AES-NI++
FMAno data+
AVX++

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 3 1200 and Athlon Gold 3150U are enumerated here.

AMD-V++

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 3 1200 and Athlon Gold 3150U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4DDR4
Maximum memory size64 GB32 GB
Max memory channels22
Maximum memory bandwidth42.671 GB/s38.397 GB/s
ECC memory support++

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card-AMD Radeon RX Vega 3

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 3 1200 and Athlon Gold 3150U.

PCIe version3.03.0
PCI Express lanes2012

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.

Ryzen 3 1200 4.14
+59.8%
Athlon Gold 3150U 2.59

Ryzen 3 1200 outperforms Athlon Gold 3150U by 60% based on our aggregated 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%

Ryzen 3 1200 6407
+59.7%
Athlon Gold 3150U 4012

Ryzen 3 1200 outperforms Athlon Gold 3150U by 60% in Passmark.

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Benchmark coverage: 42%

Ryzen 3 1200 986
+24.3%
Athlon Gold 3150U 793

Ryzen 3 1200 outperforms Athlon Gold 3150U by 24% in GeekBench 5 Single-Core.

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Benchmark coverage: 42%

Ryzen 3 1200 2839
+73.1%
Athlon Gold 3150U 1640

Ryzen 3 1200 outperforms Athlon Gold 3150U by 73% in GeekBench 5 Multi-Core.

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%

Ryzen 3 1200 4178
+14.8%
Athlon Gold 3150U 3639

Ryzen 3 1200 outperforms Athlon Gold 3150U by 15% 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%

Ryzen 3 1200 13961
+84.5%
Athlon Gold 3150U 7566

Ryzen 3 1200 outperforms Athlon Gold 3150U by 85% in Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core.

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

Benchmark coverage: 19%

Ryzen 3 1200 5419
+29.4%
Athlon Gold 3150U 4189

Ryzen 3 1200 outperforms Athlon Gold 3150U by 29% in 3DMark06 CPU.

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%

Ryzen 3 1200 12.5
+221%
Athlon Gold 3150U 40.13

Athlon Gold 3150U outperforms Ryzen 3 1200 by 221% in wPrime 32.

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

Ryzen 3 1200 6
+37.8%
Athlon Gold 3150U 4

Ryzen 3 1200 outperforms Athlon Gold 3150U by 38% in Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core.

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%

Ryzen 3 1200 480
+36.4%
Athlon Gold 3150U 352

Ryzen 3 1200 outperforms Athlon Gold 3150U by 36% 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: 15%

Ryzen 3 1200 135
+15.4%
Athlon Gold 3150U 117

Ryzen 3 1200 outperforms Athlon Gold 3150U by 15% in Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core.

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R11.5 is an old benchmark 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 loads a single thread with ray tracing to render a glossy room full of crystal spheres and light sources.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

Ryzen 3 1200 1.53
+12.5%
Athlon Gold 3150U 1.36

Ryzen 3 1200 outperforms Athlon Gold 3150U by 13% in Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core.

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%

Ryzen 3 1200 2.6
+18.2%
Athlon Gold 3150U 2.2

Ryzen 3 1200 outperforms Athlon Gold 3150U by 18% 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%

Ryzen 3 1200 2481
+52.1%
Athlon Gold 3150U 1631

Ryzen 3 1200 outperforms Athlon Gold 3150U by 52% in WinRAR 4.0.

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%

Ryzen 3 1200 160
+50.1%
Athlon Gold 3150U 107

Ryzen 3 1200 outperforms Athlon Gold 3150U by 50% in x264 encoding pass 1.

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%

Ryzen 3 1200 33
+48.4%
Athlon Gold 3150U 22

Ryzen 3 1200 outperforms Athlon Gold 3150U by 48% in x264 encoding pass 2.

Gaming performance

Pros & Cons Summary


Performance score 4.14 2.59
Recency 27 July 2017 7 January 2020
Physical cores 4 2
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 15 Watt

The Ryzen 3 1200 is our recommended choice as it beats the Athlon Gold 3150U in performance tests.

Note that Ryzen 3 1200 is a desktop processor while Athlon Gold 3150U is a notebook one.


Should you still have questions on choice between Ryzen 3 1200 and Athlon Gold 3150U, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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