AMD Athlon 300U Benchmark, Test and specs

Last updated: 2023-04-27

The AMD Athlon 300U was released in Q1/2019 and has 2 cores. The processor can process 4 threads simultaneously and uses a mainboard with the socket FP5. In the Geekbench 5 benchmark, the AMD Athlon 300U achieved a result of 803 points (single-core) or 1,723 points (multi-core).

CPU lineage
In this classification you can see to which group of processors the AMD Athlon 300U belongs. We also show the direct predecessor and successor of AMD Athlon 300U.
Name:	AMD Athlon 300U
Family:	AMD Athlon
CPU group:	AMD Athlon 300
Architecture:	Picasso (Zen+)
Segment:	Mobile
Generation:	6
Predecessor:	--
Successor:	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The AMD Athlon 300U has 2 cores. The clock frequency of the AMD Athlon 300U is 2.40 GHz (3.30 GHz). An initial performance assessment can be made using the number of CPU cores.

CPU Cores / Threads:	2 / 4
Core architecture:	normal
Cores:	2x

Hyperthreading / SMT:	Yes
Overclocking:	No
Frequency:	2.40 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core):	3.30 GHz
Turbo Frequency (2 Cores):	2.40 GHz

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.

AI hardware:	--
AI specifications:	--

Internal Graphics

The AMD Athlon 300U has an integrated graphics that the system can use to efficiently play back videos. The AMD Athlon 300U has the AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 (Raven Ridge) installed, which has 3 streaming multiprocessors (192 shaders).

GPU name:	AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 (Raven Ridge)
GPU frequency:	1.00 GHz
GPU (Turbo):	No turbo
Compute units:	3
Shader:	192
Max. GPU Memory:	2 GB

Max. displays:	3
Generation:	8
Direct X:	12
Technology:	14 nm
Release date:	Q1/2018

Hardware codec support

Processors with integrated graphics can process video codecs faster. Support for modern codecs can significantly increase system efficiency during video playback.

h265 / HEVC (8 bit):	Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (10 bit):	Decode / Encode
h264:	Decode / Encode
VP8:	Decode / Encode
VP9:	Decode / Encode

AV1:	No
AVC:	Decode / Encode
VC-1:	Decode
JPEG:	Decode / Encode

Memory type:	Memory bandwidth:
Memory & PCIe The AMD Athlon 300U supports a maximum of 32 GB memory. Depending on the mainboard, the processor can use a maximum of 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. This results in a maximum bandwidth of the main memory of 38.4 GB/s.

DDR4-2400	38.4 GB/s
Max. Memory:	32 GB
Memory channels:	2 (Dual Channel)
ECC:	Yes
PCIe:	3.0 x 12
PCIe Bandwidth:	11.8 GB/s

Thermal Management The AMD Athlon 300U has a TDP of 15 W. Based on the TDP, the system manufacturer can and must adapt the cooling solution to the processor.

TDP (PL1 / PBP):	15 W
TDP (PL2):	--
TDP up:	--
TDP down:	--
Tjunction max.:	105 °C

Technical details

Modern production reduces the waste heat of a processor and increases its efficiency. The AMD Athlon 300U is made in 12 nm and has 4.00 MB cache.

Technology:	12 nm
Chip design:
Socket:	FP5
L2-Cache:	--
L3-Cache:	4.00 MB
AES-NI:	Yes
Operating systems:

Virtualization:	AMD-V, SVM
Instruction set (ISA):	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions:	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
Release date:	Q1/2019
Release price:	--
Part Number:	--
Documents:	Technical data sheet

AMD Athlon 300U
2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz (3.30 GHz)

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Benchmark results

The benchmark results for the AMD Athlon 300U have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.

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.


	AMD EPYC 7401P 24C 48T @ 3.00 GHz	804
	Intel Core i7-3960X 6C 12T @ 3.90 GHz	804
	Intel Core i7-5700EQ 4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz	804
	AMD Athlon 300U 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	803
	MediaTek Dimensity 930 8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz	803
	Intel Pentium G4600T 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	803
	MediaTek Kompanio 1300T 8C 8T @ 2.60 GHz	802

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.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 8C 8T @ 2.45 GHz	1728
	Intel Celeron G5925 2C 2T @ 3.60 GHz	1725
	Intel Core i5-4300M 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	1725
	AMD Athlon 300U 2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	1723
	Intel Core i3-6100T 2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	1722
	Intel Core i3-7167U 2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz	1720
	AMD Ryzen 3 2200U 2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz	1718

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.


	Intel Core i7-4702HQ 4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz	965
	AMD Ryzen 3 5125C 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	964
	Intel Xeon E5-2683 v4 16C 32T @ 3.00 GHz	963
	AMD Athlon 300U 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	962
	AMD Athlon PRO 300U 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	961
	Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 8C 8T @ 2.84 GHz	960
	Intel Core i7-4558U 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	960

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.


	AMD Athlon 300GE 2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	1972
	AMD Athlon Gold 3150C 2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	1968
	AMD Athlon Gold 3150U 2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	1968
	AMD Athlon 300U 2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	1967
	Intel Core i7-4558U 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	1967
	Intel Core i5-3450 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	1966
	Intel Core i7-950 4C 8T @ 3.06 GHz	1965

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.


	AMD A8-5500 AMD Radeon HD 7560D @ 0.76 GHz	389
	AMD A8-5500B AMD Radeon HD 7560D @ 0.76 GHz	389
	AMD A8-5600K AMD Radeon HD 7560D @ 0.76 GHz	389
	AMD Athlon 300U AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 (Raven Ridge) @ 1.00 GHz	384
	Intel Atom x7425E Intel UHD Graphics 24 EUs (Alder Lake) @ 1.00 GHz	384
	Intel Processor N200 Intel UHD Graphics 32 EUs (Alder Lake) @ 0.75 GHz	384
	Intel Core i5-13500HX Intel UHD Graphics 13th Gen (16 EU) @ 1.50 GHz	384

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.


	MediaTek Helio G96 8C 8T @ 2.05 GHz	3945
	Intel Core i5-7260U 2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	3944
	Intel Core i5-3340S 4C 4T @ 2.80 GHz	3922
	AMD Athlon 300U 2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	3917
	Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G 8C 8T @ 2.30 GHz	3911
	Intel Celeron J6412 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	3908
	Intel Core i7-2675QM 4C 8T @ 2.20 GHz	3892

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Core i7-4850HQ 4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz	139
	Intel Core i7-4930K 6C 12T @ 3.90 GHz	139
	Intel Core i7-5820K 6C 12T @ 3.60 GHz	139
	AMD Athlon 300U 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	138
	AMD Ryzen 3 3250U 2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz	138
	AMD Athlon PRO 300U 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	138
	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 2700U 4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz	138

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Core i5-5287U 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	348
	AMD FX-6100 6C 6T @ 3.90 GHz	345
	Intel Core i5-4340M 2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz	345
	AMD Athlon 300U 2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	344
	AMD Ryzen 3 3250U 2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz	344
	AMD Athlon PRO 300U 2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	344
	AMD Ryzen 3 3200U 2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz	344

Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,429 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,403 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,688 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,638 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
1,943 entries

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
478 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,334 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,104 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,099 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
942 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
938 entries

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