Intel Core i7-3770 vs AMD Athlon 3000G. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Core i7 AMD Athlon
• Generation
  3 4
• CPU group
  Intel Core i 3000 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
  3.40 GHz 3.50 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.90 GHz 3.50 GHz
• CPU Threads
  8 4
• Hyperthreading
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  Yes 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
  Intel HD Graphics 4000 AMD Radeon Vega 3 Graphics
• GPU frequency
  0.65 GHz 1.00 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  1.15 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  16 3
• Shader
  128 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 2 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  7 8
• DirectX Version
  11.0 12
• Technology
  22 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2011 Q1/2018

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Athlon 3000G and Intel Core i7-3770. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2666
• Max. Memory
  32 GB 64 GB
• ECC
  No 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 Intel Core i7-3770 and AMD Athlon 3000G to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  77 W 35 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Core i7-3770 and Intel Core i7-3770, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

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