Athlon PRO 300GE vs Steam Deck OLED APU

Place in the ranking	1284	1692
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop processor
Series	Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU)	AMD Athlon
Power efficiency	29.06	7.32
Architecture codename	Van Gogh (Custom) (2023)	Zen+ (2018−2019)
Release date	9 November 2023 (less than a year ago)	30 September 2019 (5 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Steam Deck OLED APU and Athlon PRO 300GE 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	2.4 GHz	no data
Boost clock speed	3.5 GHz	3.4 GHz
Multiplier	no data	34
L1 cache	256 KB	192 KB
L2 cache	2 MB	1 MB
L3 cache	4 MB	4 MB
Chip lithography	6 nm	12 nm
Die size	no data	209.78 mm²
Number of transistors	no data	4950 Million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	no data	+

Compatibility

Information on Steam Deck OLED APU and Athlon PRO 300GE 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	no data	1 (Uniprocessor)
Socket	no data	Socket AM4
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Steam Deck OLED APU and Athlon PRO 300GE. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME	no data
AES-NI	+	+
FMA	+	+
AVX	+	+
Precision Boost 2	no data	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Steam Deck OLED APU and Athlon PRO 300GE are enumerated here.

AMD-V

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Steam Deck OLED APU and Athlon PRO 300GE. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR4	DDR4-2666
Maximum memory size	no data	64 GB
Max memory channels	no data	2
Maximum memory bandwidth	no data	42.671 GB/s
ECC memory support	-	+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon Steam Deck 8CU

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Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	4.78	2.81
Recency	9 November 2023	30 September 2019
Physical cores	4	2
Threads	8	4
Chip lithography	6 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	35 Watt

Steam Deck OLED APU has a 70.1% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 4 years, 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 133.3% lower power consumption.

The Steam Deck OLED APU is our recommended choice as it beats the Athlon PRO 300GE in performance tests.

Be aware that Steam Deck OLED APU is a notebook processor while Athlon PRO 300GE is a desktop one.

Should you still have questions on choice between Steam Deck OLED APU and Athlon PRO 300GE, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.