AMD Athlon 3000G vs Intel Core i7-3612QM

AMD Athlon 3000G
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3500 MHz / Cores: 2 / Nov 2019
AMD Athlon 3000G
Intel Core i7-3612QM
Intel Socket G2 (988B)MOBILE
2100 MHz / Cores: 4 / Apr 2012
Intel Core i7-3612QM

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Athlon 3000G
    103%
  • Intel Core i7-3612QM
    100%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Athlon 3000G
    126%
  • Intel Core i7-3612QM
    100%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Athlon 3000G
    100%
  • Intel Core i7-3612QM
    124%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Athlon 3000G

Much higher single threaded performance (around 26% higher), makes a noticeable performance difference in gaming and the majority of applications.
This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).

Reasons to consider Intel Core i7-3612QM

Much higher multi threaded performance (around 24% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.

No winner

Gaming

No clear winner declared


Intel Core i7-3612QM

Productivity

HWBench recommends Intel Core i7-3612QM

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


Specifications

Features

AMD Athlon 3000GIntel Core i7-3612QM
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
TXT
VT-x
Hyper-Threading
AES-NI

Architecture

AMD Athlon 3000GIntel Core i7-3612QM
ArchitectureAMD ZenvsIntel_IvyBridge
MarketDesktopvsMobile
Memory SupportDDR4 Dual-channelvsunknown
CodenameZenvsIvy Bridge
Release DateNov 2019vsApr 2012

Cores

AMD Athlon 3000GIntel Core i7-3612QM
Cores2vs4
Threads4vs8
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsRadeon Vega 3vsIntel HD 4000

Cache

AMD Athlon 3000GIntel Core i7-3612QM
L1 Cache96K (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512K (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache4MB (shared)vs6144 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Athlon 3000GIntel Core i7-3612QM
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsIntel Socket G2 (988B)
Max Case TempN/Avsunknown
PackageµPGAvsFC-PGA12F
Die Size148mm²vs160mm²
Process14 nmvs22 nm

Performance

AMD Athlon 3000GIntel Core i7-3612QM
Cpu Frequency3500 MHzvs2100 MHz
Turbo Clocknonevs3100 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
VoltageN/Avsunknown
TDP35 Wvs35 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon 3000G
    3850 points
  • Intel Core i7-3612QM
    3193 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon 3000G
    9394 points
  • Intel Core i7-3612QM
    10382 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Athlon 3000G (simulated)
    138.21
  • Intel Core i7-3612QM (simulated)
    109.47

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD Athlon 3000G (simulated)
    398.61
  • Intel Core i7-3612QM (simulated)
    497.32

points - higher is better