Intel Core i3-1000G4 vs AMD Athlon II X2 280

Intel Core i3-1000G4
Intel BGA1440MOBILE
1100 MHz / Cores: 2 / Aug 2019
Intel Core i3-1000G4
AMD Athlon II X2 280
AMD Socket AM3DESKTOP
3600 MHz / Cores: 2 / Feb 2013
AMD Athlon II X2 280

Summary

Reasons to consider Intel Core i3-1000G4

53 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 Athlon II X2 280.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on raw specifications plus core architecture.

Reasons to consider AMD Athlon II X2 280

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

Intel Core i3-1000G4

Gaming

HWBench recommends Intel Core i3-1000G4

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

AMD Athlon II X2 280

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD Athlon II X2 280

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


Specifications

Features

Intel Core i3-1000G4AMD Athlon II X2 280
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4.2
AVX
AVX2
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
VT-x
VT-d
HTT
AES-NI
TSX
TXT
CLMUL
FMA3
F16C
BMI1
BMI2
Boost 2.0
3DNow!
SSE4A
AMD64
NX bit
AMD Virtualization

Architecture

Intel Core i3-1000G4AMD Athlon II X2 280
ArchitectureIntel_IcelakevsAMD K10
MarketMobilevsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR2, DDR3
CodenameIce Lake-YvsRegor
Release DateAug 2019vsFeb 2013

Cores

Intel Core i3-1000G4AMD Athlon II X2 280
Cores2vs2
Threads4vs2
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsIris PlusvsNo

Cache

Intel Core i3-1000G4AMD Athlon II X2 280
L1 Cache64K (per core)vs128 KB
L2 Cache256K (per core)vs1024 KB
L3 Cache4MB (shared)vs0 KB

Physical

Intel Core i3-1000G4AMD Athlon II X2 280
SocketIntel BGA1440vsAMD Socket AM3
Max Case Temp72°Cvsunknown
PackageFC-BGA1440vsuPGA
Die Sizeunknownvs117mm²
Process10 nmvs45 nm

Performance

Intel Core i3-1000G4AMD Athlon II X2 280
Cpu Frequency1100 MHzvs3600 MHz
Turbo Clock3200 MHzvsnone
Base Clock100 MHzvs200 MHz
VoltageN/Avs1.15 V
TDP12 Wvs65 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • Intel Core i3-1000G4
    3840 points
  • AMD Athlon II X2 280
    2268 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • Intel Core i3-1000G4
    3168 points
  • AMD Athlon II X2 280
    4536 points

Points - higher is better