Athlon Gold 3150G vs Ryzen 5 3500U

Place in performance ranking	1237	1211
Place by popularity	35	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop processor
Series	AMD Ryzen 5	no data
Architecture codename	Picasso-U (Zen+)	Dali (2020)
Release date	6 January 2019 (5 years ago)	21 July 2020 (3 years ago)
Current price	$672	no data

Detailed specifications

Ryzen 5 3500U and Athlon Gold 3150G 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)	4 (Quad-Core)
Threads	8	4
Base clock speed	2.1 GHz	3.5 GHz
Boost clock speed	3.7 GHz	3.9 GHz
L1 cache	128K (per core)	96K (per core)
L2 cache	512K (per core)	512K (per core)
L3 cache	4 MB (shared)	4 MB (shared)
Chip lithography	12 nm	12 nm
Die size	209.78 mm²	no data
Maximum core temperature	105 °C	no data
Maximum case temperature (TCase)	no data	95 °C
Number of transistors	4500 Million	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	+	+
Unlocked multiplier	No	No

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 5 3500U and Athlon Gold 3150G 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
Socket	FP5	AM4
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	65 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 3500U and Athlon Gold 3150G. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	DDR4-2400 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	no data
AES-NI	+	+
FMA	+	no data
AVX	+	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 5 3500U and Athlon Gold 3150G are enumerated here.

AMD-V

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 5 3500U and Athlon Gold 3150G. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR4	DDR4-2933
Maximum memory size	64 GB	no data
Max memory channels	2	no data
Maximum memory bandwidth	38.397 GB/s	no data
ECC memory support	+	no data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 3

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 5 3500U and Athlon Gold 3150G.

PCIe version	3.0	4.0
PCI Express lanes	12	no data

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 5 3500U 4.49

Athlon Gold 3150G 4.60
+2.4%

Athlon Gold 3150G outperforms Ryzen 5 3500U by 2% 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 5 3500U 6951

Athlon Gold 3150G 7112
+2.3%

Athlon Gold 3150G outperforms Ryzen 5 3500U by 2% in Passmark.