AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE vs AMD FX-8100

AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3400 MHz / Cores: 2 / Jul 2020
AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE
AMD FX-8100
AMD Socket AM3+DESKTOP
2800 MHz / Cores: 8 / Oct 2011
AMD FX-8100

Summary

Reasons to consider AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE

60 watts lower power draw.
This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).
Has an integrated GPU, which allows to run the system without a dedicated graphics card, unlike the AMD FX-8100.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on raw specifications plus core architecture.

Reasons to consider AMD FX-8100

Higher theoretical multi-threaded performance, based on raw specifications plus core architecture.

AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE

Gaming

HWBench recommends AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

No winner

Productivity

No clear winner declared



Specifications

Features

AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GEAMD FX-8100
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4A
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
AES
AVX
AVX2
BMI1
BMI2
SHA
F16C
FMA3
AMD64
EVP
AMD-V
SMAP
SMEP
Precision Boost
SSE4a
CLMUL
CVT16
FMA4
XOP
Turbo Core
HT3.1

Architecture

AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GEAMD FX-8100
ArchitectureAMD Zen+vsAMD Bulldozer
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4-2933 MHz Dual-channelvsDDR3
CodenameDalivsZambezi
Release DateJul 2020vsOct 2011

Cores

AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GEAMD FX-8100
Cores2vs8
Threads4vs8
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsRadeon Vega 3vsNo

Cache

AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GEAMD FX-8100
L1 Cache96K (per core)vs384 KB
L2 Cache512K (per core)vs8192 KB
L3 Cache4MB (shared)vs8192 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GEAMD FX-8100
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsAMD Socket AM3+
Max Case Temp95°Cvsunknown
PackageµOPGA-1331vsuPGA
Die Sizeunknownvs315mm²
Process12 nmvs32 nm

Performance

AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GEAMD FX-8100
Cpu Frequency3400 MHzvs2800 MHz
Turbo Clocknonevs3700 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs200 MHz
VoltageN/Avs1.425 V
TDP35 Wvs95 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE
    3740 points
  • AMD FX-8100
    2183 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon Silver PRO 3125GE
    9125 points
  • AMD FX-8100
    10837 points

Points - higher is better