AMD Athlon 3000G vs Intel Core i5-3470. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  AMD Athlon Intel Core i5
• Generation
  4 3
• CPU group
  AMD Athlon 3000 Intel Core i 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 3.20 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.50 GHz 3.60 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Hyperthreading
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• 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 Intel HD Graphics 2500
• GPU frequency
  1.00 GHz 0.65 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 1.10 GHz
• Execution units
  3 6
• Shader
  192 48
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB --
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  8 7
• DirectX Version
  12 11.0
• Technology
  14 nm 22 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2018 Q2/2012

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-3470 and AMD Athlon 3000G. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2666 DDR3-1600
• Max. Memory
  64 GB 32 GB
• ECC
  Yes No
• 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 3000G and Intel Core i5-3470 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  35 W 77 W

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

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 6.00 MB
• Architecture
  Raven Ridge (Zen) Ivy Bridge S
• Technology
  14 nm 22 nm
• Socket
  AM4 LGA 1155
• Release date
  Q4/2019 Q2/2012