Athlon PRO 300U vs Ryzen 5 2500U
Aggregate performance score
Ryzen 5 2500U outperforms Athlon PRO 300U by an impressive 59% 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 | 1653 | 2002 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Series | AMD Ryzen 5 | AMD Athlon |
| Power efficiency | 26.30 | 16.51 |
| Designer | AMD | AMD |
| Manufacturer | GlobalFoundries | GlobalFoundries |
| Architecture codename | Raven Ridge (2017−2019) | Raven Ridge 2 (2019) |
| Release date | 26 October 2017 (8 years ago) | 8 April 2019 (6 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Ryzen 5 2500U and Athlon PRO 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 | 8 | 4 |
| Base clock speed | 2 GHz | 2.4 GHz |
| Boost clock speed | 3.6 GHz | 3.3 GHz |
| Bus type | no data | PCIe 3.0 |
| Multiplier | 20 | 24 |
| L1 cache | 96 KB (per core) | 128K (per core) |
| L2 cache | 512 KB (per core) | 512K (per core) |
| L3 cache | 4 MB (shared) | 4 MB (shared) |
| Chip lithography | 14 nm | 14 nm |
| Die size | 210 mm2 | 209.78 mm2 |
| Number of transistors | 4,950 million | 4940 Million |
| 64 bit support | + | + |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | + |
Compatibility
Information on Ryzen 5 2500U and Athlon PRO 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 (Uniprocessor) | 1 (Uniprocessor) |
| Socket | FP5 | FP5 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | 15 Watt |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 2500U and Athlon PRO 300U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | XFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT | XFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT |
| AES-NI | + | + |
| AVX | + | + |
| Precision Boost 2 | + | no data |
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 5 2500U and Athlon PRO 300U are enumerated here.
| AMD-V | + | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 5 2500U and Athlon PRO 300U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR4-2400 | DDR4 Dual-channel |
| Maximum memory size | 32 GB | 32 GB |
| Max memory channels | 2 | 2 |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 38.397 GB/s | 38.397 GB/s |
| ECC memory support | + | + |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.
| Integrated graphics card | AMD Radeon Vega 8 | AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 ( - 1000 MHz) |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 5 2500U and Athlon PRO 300U.
| PCIe version | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| PCI Express lanes | 12 | 12 |
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 | 3.68 | 2.31 |
| Integrated graphics card | 4.13 | 2.73 |
| Recency | 26 October 2017 | 8 April 2019 |
| Physical cores | 4 | 2 |
| Threads | 8 | 4 |
Ryzen 5 2500U has a 59.3% higher aggregate performance score, 51.3% faster integrated GPU, and 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads.
Athlon PRO 300U, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year.
The AMD Ryzen 5 2500U is our recommended choice as it beats the AMD Athlon PRO 300U in performance tests.
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