AMD Athlon 3000G vs AMD Ryzen 5 1500X

AMD Athlon 3000G
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3500 MHz / Cores: 2 / Nov 2019
AMD Athlon 3000G
AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3200 MHz / Cores: 4 / Jun 2017
AMD Ryzen 5 1500X

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Athlon 3000G
    100%
  • AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
    155%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Athlon 3000G
    100%
  • AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
    109%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Athlon 3000G
    100%
  • AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
    200%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Athlon 3000G

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 Ryzen 5 1500X.

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 5 1500X

9% higher single threaded performance.
Much higher multi threaded performance (around 100% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
Around 55% higher average synthetic performance.

AMD Ryzen 5 1500X

Gaming

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 5 1500X

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

AMD Ryzen 5 1500X

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 5 1500X

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

AMD Athlon 3000GAMD Ryzen 5 1500X
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4A
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
AES
AVX
AVX2
BMI1
BMI2
SHA
F16C
FMA3
AMD64
EVP
AMD-V
SMAP
SMEP
3DNow!
CnQ
NX bit
SMT

Architecture

AMD Athlon 3000GAMD Ryzen 5 1500X
ArchitectureAMD ZenvsAMD Zen
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4 Dual-channelvsDDR4
CodenameZenvsZen
Release DateNov 2019vsJun 2017

Cores

AMD Athlon 3000GAMD Ryzen 5 1500X
Cores2vs4
Threads4vs8
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsRadeon Vega 3vsNo

Cache

AMD Athlon 3000GAMD Ryzen 5 1500X
L1 Cache96K (per core)vs128 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512K (per core)vs512 KB (per core)
L3 Cache4MB (shared)vs16384 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Athlon 3000GAMD Ryzen 5 1500X
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsAMD Socket AM4
Max Case TempN/Avsunknown
PackageµPGAvsuPGA
Die Size148mm²vs192mm²
Process14 nmvs14 nm

Performance

AMD Athlon 3000GAMD Ryzen 5 1500X
Cpu Frequency3500 MHzvs3200 MHz
Turbo Clocknonevs3500 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
VoltageN/Avsunknown
TDP35 Wvs65 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon 3000G
    3850 points
  • AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
    3850 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon 3000G
    9394 points
  • AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
    17177 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Athlon 3000G (simulated)
    138.21
  • AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
    152

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD Athlon 3000G (simulated)
    398.61
  • AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
    799

points - higher is better