AMD Athlon 240GE vs AMD Athlon 3000G. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Mobile Desktop / Server
• Family
  AMD Athlon AMD Athlon
• Generation
  5 4
• CPU group
  AMD Athlon 200 AMD Athlon 3000

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  3.50 GHz 3.50 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.50 GHz 3.50 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Turbo (2 Cores)
  3.50 GHz 3.50 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Core architecture
  normal normal

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  AMD Radeon Vega 3 Graphics AMD Radeon Vega 3 Graphics
• GPU frequency
  1.10 GHz 1.00 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  3 3
• Shader
  192 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 2 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  8 8
• DirectX Version
  12 12
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2018 Q1/2018

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Athlon 3000G and AMD Athlon 240GE. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2666 DDR4-2666
• Max. Memory
  64 GB
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  16 16

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon 240GE and AMD Athlon 3000G to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  35 W 35 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Athlon 240GE and AMD Athlon 240GE, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM AMD-V, SVM
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Raven Ridge (Zen+) Raven Ridge (Zen)
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  AM4 AM4
• Release date
  Q3/2018 Q4/2019