Athlon 300U vs Ryzen 5 PRO 1500

Primary details

Comparing Ryzen 5 PRO 1500 and Athlon 300U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance ranking	1050	1660
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	2.91	no data
Market segment	Server	Laptop
Series	AMD Ryzen 5	AMD Athlon
Architecture codename	Zen (2017−2020)	Raven Ridge 2 (2019)
Release date	29 June 2017 (7 years ago)	6 January 2019 (5 years ago)
Current price	$57	$486

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

Detailed specifications

Ryzen 5 PRO 1500 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	4 (Quad-Core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	8	4
Base clock speed	3.5 GHz	2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed	3.7 GHz	3.3 GHz
Bus support	4 × 8 GT/s	no data
L1 cache	96K (per core)	128K (per core)
L2 cache	512K (per core)	512K (per core)
L3 cache	16 MB (shared)	4 MB (shared)
Chip lithography	14 nm	14 nm
Die size	192 mm2	209.78 mm2
Number of transistors	4,800 million	4500 Million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	+
Unlocked multiplier	Yes	No

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 5 PRO 1500 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 (Uniprocessor)	1 (Uniprocessor)
Socket	AM4	FP5
Power consumption (TDP)	65 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 PRO 1500 and Athlon 300U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	no data	XFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT
AES-NI	+	+
AVX	+	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 5 PRO 1500 and Athlon 300U are enumerated here.

AMD-V

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Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 5 PRO 1500 and Athlon 300U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR4 Dual-channel	DDR4 Dual-channel
Maximum memory size	64 GB	64 GB
Max memory channels	2	2
Maximum memory bandwidth	42.671 GB/s	38.397 GB/s
ECC memory support	+	+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

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AMD Radeon RX Vega 3

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 5 PRO 1500 and Athlon 300U.

PCIe version	3.0	3.0
PCI Express lanes	20	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.

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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 PRO 1500 outperforms Athlon 300U by 132% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

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Pros & cons summary

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Performance score	5.89	2.54
Recency	29 June 2017	6 January 2019
Physical cores	4	2
Threads	8	4
Power consumption (TDP)	65 Watt	15 Watt

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