AMD Athlon 3000G vs Intel Core i7-2600K

AMD Athlon 3000G
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3500 MHz / Cores: 2 / Nov 2019
AMD Athlon 3000G
Intel Core i7-2600K
Intel Socket 1155DESKTOP
3400 MHz / Cores: 4 / Jan 2011
Intel Core i7-2600K

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Athlon 3000G
    100%
  • Intel Core i7-2600K
    123%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Athlon 3000G
    107%
  • Intel Core i7-2600K
    100%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Athlon 3000G
    100%
  • Intel Core i7-2600K
    154%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Athlon 3000G

7% higher single threaded performance.
60 watts lower power draw.
This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).

Reasons to consider Intel Core i7-2600K

Much higher multi threaded performance (around 54% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.

No winner

Gaming

No clear winner declared


Intel Core i7-2600K

Productivity

HWBench recommends Intel Core i7-2600K

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


Specifications

Features

AMD Athlon 3000GIntel Core i7-2600K
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4A
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
AES
AVX
AVX2
BMI1
BMI2
SHA
F16C
FMA3
AMD64
EVP
AMD-V
SMAP
SMEP
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
VT-x
Hyper-Threading
AES-NI

Architecture

AMD Athlon 3000GIntel Core i7-2600K
ArchitectureAMD ZenvsIntel_SandyBridge
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4 Dual-channelvsDDR3
CodenameZenvsSandy Bridge
Release DateNov 2019vsJan 2011

Cores

AMD Athlon 3000GIntel Core i7-2600K
Cores2vs4
Threads4vs8
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsRadeon Vega 3vsIntel HD 3000

Cache

AMD Athlon 3000GIntel Core i7-2600K
L1 Cache96K (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512K (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache4MB (shared)vs8192 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Athlon 3000GIntel Core i7-2600K
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsIntel Socket 1155
Max Case TempN/Avsunknown
PackageµPGAvsFC-LGA10
Die Size148mm²vs216mm²
Process14 nmvs32 nm

Performance

AMD Athlon 3000GIntel Core i7-2600K
Cpu Frequency3500 MHzvs3400 MHz
Turbo Clocknonevs3800 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
VoltageN/Avsunknown
TDP35 Wvs95 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon 3000G
    3850 points
  • Intel Core i7-2600K
    3800 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon 3000G
    9394 points
  • Intel Core i7-2600K
    16320 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Athlon 3000G (simulated)
    138.21
  • Intel Core i7-2600K
    129

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD Athlon 3000G (simulated)
    398.61
  • Intel Core i7-2600K
    614

points - higher is better