AMD Athlon 320GE vs Apple M1. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  AMD Athlon 300 Apple M1
• Family
  Athlon Apple M series
• Form Factor
  Desktops -
• Generation
  4 1
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile
• Series
  Athlon 300 Series -

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 3.2 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• Core Configuration
  2x Dali -
• CPU Cores
  2 8
• CPU Threads
  4 8
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.5 GHz No turbo
• A-Core
  - 4x Firestorm
• B-Core
  - 4x Icestorm
• Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
  - 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
  3 128
• Generation
  8 1
• GPU Frequency
  1100 MHz 3200 MHz
• GPU name
  Radeon Vega 3 Graphics Apple M1 (8 Core)
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo
• Graphics Cores
  3 -
• Max. displays
  3 2
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 8 GB
• Release date
  Q1/2018 Q4/2020
• Shader
  192 0
• Technology
  14 nm 5 nm

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Apple M1 and AMD Athlon 320GE. 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 LPDDR4X-4266
• PCIe
  PCIe 3.0 -
• System Memory Specification
  2667 -
• PCIe version
  - 4.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon 320GE and Apple M1 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 -
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  35 W 15 W
• TDP down
  - 10 W
• TDP up
  - 20 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Athlon 320GE and Apple M1, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Dali (Zen) M1
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
• L1-Cache
  0.1875 MB -
• L2-Cache
  1 MB 16 MB
• L3-Cache
  4 MB -
• Manufacturer product ID (boxed)
  YD32GEC6FHBOX -
• Manufacturer product ID (tray)
  YD32GEC6M2OFH -
• Operating systems
  Windows 11 - 64-Bit Edition / Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition / RHEL x86 64-Bit / Ubuntu x86 64-Bit -
• Release date
  2019-07-07 Q4/2020
• Socket
  AM4 -
• Technology
  14nm FinFET 5 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM None