HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs AMD Athlon Gold 3150GE

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HiSilicon Kirin 659 CPU1 vs CPU2 AMD Athlon Gold 3150GE
HiSilicon Kirin 659 AMD Athlon Gold 3150GE

CPU comparison

HiSilicon Kirin 659 or AMD Athlon Gold 3150GE - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results.

The HiSilicon Kirin 659 has 8 cores with 8 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 2.36 GHz. Up to GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The HiSilicon Kirin 659 was released in Q2/2016.

The AMD Athlon Gold 3150GE has 4 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.80 GHz. The CPU supports up to GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The AMD Athlon Gold 3150GE was released in Q3/2020.
HiSilicon Kirin (29) Family AMD Athlon (29)
HiSilicon Kirin 650 (4) CPU group AMD Athlon Gold 3000G (4)
4 Generation 4
Cortex-A53 / Cortex-A53 Architecture Picasso (Zen+)
Mobile Segment Desktop / Server
-- Predecessor --
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The HiSilicon Kirin 659 has 8 CPU cores and can calculate 8 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the HiSilicon Kirin 659 is 2.36 GHz while the AMD Athlon Gold 3150GE has 4 CPU cores and 4 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the AMD Athlon Gold 3150GE is at 3.50 GHz (3.80 GHz).
HiSilicon Kirin 659 Characteristic AMD Athlon Gold 3150GE
8 Cores 4
8 Threads 4
hybrid (big.LITTLE) Core architecture normal
No Hyperthreading No
No Overclocking ? No
2.36 GHz
4x Cortex-A53		 A-Core 3.50 GHz (3.80 GHz)
1.70 GHz
4x Cortex-A53		 B-Core --

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.
HiSilicon Kirin 659 Characteristic AMD Athlon Gold 3150GE
-- AI hardware --
-- AI specifications --

Internal Graphics

The HiSilicon Kirin 659 or AMD Athlon Gold 3150GE has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.
ARM Mali-T830 MP2 GPU AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 (Raven Ridge)
0.90 GHz GPU frequency 1.10 GHz
-- GPU (Turbo) --
Midgard 4 GPU Generation 8
28nm Technology 14 nm
2 Max. displays 3
2 Compute units 3
32 Shader 192
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
-- Max. GPU Memory 2 GB
11 DirectX Version 12

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.
ARM Mali-T830 MP2 GPU AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 (Raven Ridge)
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec h264 Decode / Encode
No Codec VP9 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec VP8 Decode / Encode
No Codec AV1 No
No Codec AVC Decode / Encode
No Codec VC-1 Decode
Decode / Encode Codec JPEG Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The HiSilicon Kirin 659 can use up to GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is --. The AMD Athlon Gold 3150GE supports up to GB of memory in 2 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 46.9 GB/s.
HiSilicon Kirin 659 Characteristic AMD Athlon Gold 3150GE
LPDDR3-933 Memory DDR4-2933
Max. Memory
2 (Dual Channel) Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
-- Max. Bandwidth 46.9 GB/s
No ECC Yes
-- L2 Cache 2.00 MB
-- L3 Cache 4.00 MB
-- PCIe version 3.0
-- PCIe lanes 16
-- PCIe Bandwidth 15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the HiSilicon Kirin 659 is --, while the AMD Athlon Gold 3150GE has a TDP of 65 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.
HiSilicon Kirin 659 Characteristic AMD Athlon Gold 3150GE
-- TDP (PL1 / PBP) 65 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up 45 W
-- TDP down --
-- Tjunction max. 95 °C

Technical details

The HiSilicon Kirin 659 is manufactured in 16 nm and has 0.00 MB cache. The AMD Athlon Gold 3150GE is manufactured in 12 nm and has a 6.00 MB cache.
HiSilicon Kirin 659 Characteristic AMD Athlon Gold 3150GE
16 nm Technology 12 nm
Chiplet Chip design Unknown
Armv8-A (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
-- ISA extensions SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
-- Socket AM4 (PGA 1331)
None Virtualization AMD-V, SVM
No AES-NI Yes
Android Operating systems Windows 10, Linux
Q2/2016 Release date Q3/2020
-- Release price --
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iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
HiSilicon Kirin 659 HiSilicon Kirin 659
ARM Mali-T830 MP2 @ 0.90 GHz
61 (15%)
AMD Athlon Gold 3150GE AMD Athlon Gold 3150GE
AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 (Raven Ridge) @ 1.10 GHz
422 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
HiSilicon Kirin 659 HiSilicon Kirin 659
8C 8T @ 2.36 GHz
193 (100%)
AMD Athlon Gold 3150GE AMD Athlon Gold 3150GE
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
0 (0%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
HiSilicon Kirin 659 HiSilicon Kirin 659
8C 8T @ 2.36 GHz
893 (100%)
AMD Athlon Gold 3150GE AMD Athlon Gold 3150GE
4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
0 (0%)

Devices using this processor
HiSilicon Kirin 659 AMD Athlon Gold 3150GE
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