AMD Athlon 3000G vs Intel Core2 Duo E8600. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  AMD Athlon 3000 Intel Core 2 Duo E7000/E8000
• Family
  Athlon Intel Core2 Duo
• Form Factor
  Desktops / Boxed Processor -
• Generation
  4 2
• Predecessor
  - No
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop
• Series
  Athlon 3000 Series -
• Successor
  - No

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  3.5 GHz 3.33 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  2 2
• CPU Threads
  4 2
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  Yes Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.5 GHz No
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  3.5 GHz No turbo

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

• DirectX Version
  12 -
• Execution units
  3 -
• Generation
  8 -
• GPU Frequency
  1100 MHz -
• GPU name
  Radeon Vega 3 Graphics -
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo -
• Graphics Cores
  3 -
• Max. displays
  3 -
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB -
• Release date
  Q1/2018 -
• Shader
  192 -
• Technology
  14 nm -

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

• AV1
  No -
• H.264 / AVC
  Decode / Encode -
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode -
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode -
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode -
• VC-1
  Decode -
• VP8
  Decode / Encode -
• VP9
  Decode / Encode -

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core2 Duo E8600 and AMD Athlon 3000G. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Max. Memory
  64 GB 16 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR4-2666 DDR2-1066 / DDR3-1333
• PCIe
  PCIe 3.0 -
• PCIe lanes
  16 -
• PCIe version
  3.0 -
• System Memory Specification
  2667 -

• AES-NI
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon 3000G and Intel Core2 Duo E8600 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Default TDP
  35 W -
• Maximum Operating Temperature
  95 °C 80 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  35 W 65 W
• TDP (PL2)
  - No
• TDP down
  - No
• TDP up
  - No

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Athlon 3000G and Intel Core2 Duo E8600, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Raven Ridge (Zen) Wolfdale
• Codename
  Picasso -
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE 4.1
• L1-Cache
  0.1875 MB -
• L2-Cache
  1 MB 6 MB
• L3-Cache
  4 MB No
• Manufacturer product ID (boxed)
  YD3000C6FHBOX -
• Manufacturer product ID (MPK)
  YD3000C6FHMPK -
• Manufacturer product ID (tray)
  YD3000C6M2OFH -
• Operating systems
  Windows 11 - 64-Bit Edition / Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition / RHEL x86 64-Bit / Ubuntu x86 64-Bit -
• Release date
  Q4/2019 Q3/2008
• Socket
  AM4 LGA 775
• Technology
  14nm 45 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM VT-x