Athlon 300U vs V-Series V120
Primary details
Comparing V-Series V120 and Athlon 300U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | 1659 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Series | AMD V-Series | AMD Athlon |
| Architecture codename | Champlain (2010−2011) | Raven Ridge 2 (2019) |
| Release date | 12 May 2010 (14 years ago) | 6 January 2019 (5 years ago) |
| Current price | $23 | $486 |
Detailed specifications
V-Series V120 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 | 1 (Single-Core) | 2 (Dual-core) |
| Threads | 1 | 4 |
| Base clock speed | no data | 2.4 GHz |
| Boost clock speed | 2.2 GHz | 3.3 GHz |
| Bus support | 3200 MHz | no data |
| L1 cache | 128 KB | 128K (per core) |
| L2 cache | 512 KB | 512K (per core) |
| L3 cache | no data | 4 MB (shared) |
| Chip lithography | 45 nm | 14 nm |
| Die size | no data | 209.78 mm2 |
| Number of transistors | no data | 4500 Million |
| 64 bit support | + | + |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | + |
| Unlocked multiplier | No | No |
Compatibility
Information on V-Series V120 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 | no data | 1 (Uniprocessor) |
| Socket | S1 | FP5 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 25 Watt | 15 Watt |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by V-Series V120 and Athlon 300U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | Integrated DDR3 memory controller, MMX, 3DNow, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4A, AMD64, Enhanced Virus Protection, Virtualization | XFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT |
| AES-NI | no data | + |
| AVX | no data | + |
| VirusProtect | + | no data |
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by V-Series V120 and Athlon 300U are enumerated here.
| AMD-V | + | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by V-Series V120 and Athlon 300U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR3 | DDR4 Dual-channel |
| Maximum memory size | no data | 64 GB |
| Max memory channels | no data | 2 |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | no data | 38.397 GB/s |
| ECC memory support | no data | + |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.
| Integrated graphics card | no data | AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by V-Series V120 and Athlon 300U.
| PCIe version | no data | 3.0 |
| PCI Express lanes | no data | 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.
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%
Athlon 300U outperforms V-Series V120 by 112% 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%
Athlon 300U outperforms V-Series V120 by 366% in Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core.
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%
V-Series V120 outperforms Athlon 300U by 349% in wPrime 32.
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 12 May 2010 | 6 January 2019 |
| Physical cores | 1 | 2 |
| Threads | 1 | 4 |
| Chip lithography | 45 nm | 14 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 25 Watt | 15 Watt |
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