AMD Athlon 300U vs Intel Core i3-3110M

AMD Athlon 300U
AMD Socket FP5MOBILE
2400 MHz / Cores: 2 / Jan 2019
AMD Athlon 300U
Intel Core i3-3110M
Intel Socket G2 (988B)MOBILE
2400 MHz / Cores: 2 / Jun 2012
Intel Core i3-3110M

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Athlon 300U
    165%
  • Intel Core i3-3110M
    100%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Athlon 300U
    155%
  • Intel Core i3-3110M
    100%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Athlon 300U
    176%
  • Intel Core i3-3110M
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Athlon 300U

Much higher single threaded performance (around 55% higher), makes a noticeable performance difference in gaming and the majority of applications.
Much higher multi threaded performance (around 76% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).
Around 65% higher average synthetic performance.

Reasons to consider Intel Core i3-3110M

None

AMD Athlon 300U

Gaming

HWBench recommends AMD Athlon 300U

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

AMD Athlon 300U

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD Athlon 300U

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


Specifications

Features

AMD Athlon 300UIntel Core i3-3110M
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4A
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
AES
AVX
AVX2
BMI1
BMI2
SHA
F16C
FMA3
AMD64
EVP
AMD-V
SMAP
SMEP
SMT
Precision Boost
EIST
Intel 64
Hyper-Threading
XD bit
VT-x

Architecture

AMD Athlon 300UIntel Core i3-3110M
ArchitectureAMD ZenvsIntel_IvyBridge
MarketMobilevsMobile
Memory SupportDDR4 Dual-channelvsunknown
CodenameRaven Ridge 2vsIvy Bridge
Release DateJan 2019vsJun 2012

Cores

AMD Athlon 300UIntel Core i3-3110M
Cores2vs2
Threads4vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsRadeon Vega 3vsIntel HD 4000

Cache

AMD Athlon 300UIntel Core i3-3110M
L1 Cache128K (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512K (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache4MB (shared)vs3072 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Athlon 300UIntel Core i3-3110M
SocketAMD Socket FP5vsIntel Socket G2 (988B)
Max Case TempN/Avsunknown
PackagevsFC-PGA12F
Die Sizeunknownvs118mm²
Process14 nmvs22 nm

Performance

AMD Athlon 300UIntel Core i3-3110M
Cpu Frequency2400 MHzvs2400 MHz
Turbo Clock3300 MHzvsnone
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
VoltageN/Avsunknown
TDP15 Wvs35 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon 300U
    3630 points
  • Intel Core i3-3110M
    2472 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon 300U
    6441 points
  • Intel Core i3-3110M
    5932 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Athlon 300U (simulated)
    126.5
  • Intel Core i3-3110M
    81.5

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD Athlon 300U (simulated)
    368.4
  • Intel Core i3-3110M
    209

points - higher is better