Intel Pentium J2900 vs AMD Athlon Gold 3150U. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile
• Family
  Intel Pentium AMD Athlon
• Generation
  6 4
• CPU group
  Intel Pentium J2000/N3500 AMD Athlon Gold 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
  2.41 GHz 2.40 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.67 GHz 3.30 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Hyperthreading
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No 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
  Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1) AMD Radeon Vega 3 Graphics
• GPU frequency
  0.69 GHz 1.00 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.90 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  4 3
• Shader
  32 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB 2 GB
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Generation
  7 8
• DirectX Version
  11.2 12
• Technology
  22 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2013 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 Gold 3150U and Intel Pentium J2900. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3L-1333 SO-DIMM DDR4-2400
• Max. Memory
  32 GB
• ECC
  No Yes
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  2.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  4 8

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium J2900 and AMD Athlon Gold 3150U to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  10 W 15 W
• TDP up
  -- 25 W
• TDP down
  -- 12 W
• Tjunction max.
  105 °C 95 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium J2900 and Intel Pentium J2900, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT AMD-V, SVM
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  -- 1.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Bay Trail Dali (Zen)
• Technology
  22 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  BGA 1170 FP5
• Release date
  Q4/2013 Q1/2020