AMD Athlon 300GE vs Intel Core i5-8259U. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  AMD Athlon Intel Core i5
• CPU group
  AMD Athlon 300 Intel Core i 8000U
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile
• Generation
  4 8

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.

• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Frequency
  3.40 GHz 2.30 GHz

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 Iris Plus Graphics 655
• GPU frequency
  1.10 GHz 0.30 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 1.05 GHz
• Execution units
  3 48
• Shader
  192 384
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 32 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  8 9.5
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2018 Q4/2017

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-8259U and AMD Athlon 300GE. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2666 DDR4-2400 SO-DIMM
• Max. Memory
  64 GB 32 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• ECC
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon 300GE and Intel Core i5-8259U to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  35 W 28 W
• Tjunction max.
  95 °C --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Athlon 300GE and AMD Athlon 300GE, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L2-Cache
  1.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 6.00 MB
• Architecture
  Dali (Zen) Coffee Lake U
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• Socket
  AM4 BGA 1528
• Release date
  Q3/2019 Q2/2018