AMD Athlon Gold 3150U vs Intel Core i7-3740QM. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  AMD Athlon Gold 3000 Intel Core i 3000M
• Family
  Athlon Intel Core i7
• Form Factor
  Laptops / Desktops -
• Generation
  4 3
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Series
  Athlon 3000 Series -

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  2.4 GHz 2.7 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  2 4
• CPU Threads
  4 8
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Max. Boost Clock
  3.3 GHz -
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.3 GHz 3.7 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  2.4 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (4 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 11.0
• Execution units
  3 16
• Generation
  8 7
• GPU Frequency
  1000 MHz 650 MHz
• GPU name
  AMD Radeon Graphics Intel HD Graphics 4000
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo 1300 MHz
• Graphics Cores
  3 -
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB -
• Release date
  Q1/2018 Q1/2011
• Shader
  192 128
• Technology
  14 nm 22 nm

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i7-3740QM and AMD Athlon Gold 3150U. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Max. Memory
  32 GB 32 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR4 DDR3-1333DDR3-1600DDR3L-1333 SO-DIMMDDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM
• PCIe lanes
  8 16
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0
• System Memory Specification
  2400 -

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon Gold 3150U and Intel Core i7-3740QM Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Configurable TDP
  12-25 W -
• Default TDP
  15 W -
• Maximum Operating Temperature
  95 °C 105 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  15 W 45 W
• TDP down
  12 W -
• TDP up
  25 W -

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Athlon Gold 3150U and Intel Core i7-3740QM, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Dali (Zen) Ivy Bridge H
• Codename
  Dali -
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
• L1-Cache
  0.1875 MB -
• L2-Cache
  1 MB -
• L3-Cache
  4 MB 6 MB
• Manufacturer product ID (tray)
  YM3150C4T2OFG -
• Operating systems
  Windows 11 - 64-Bit Edition / Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition / RHEL x86 64-Bit / Ubuntu x86 64-Bit -
• Release date
  2020-01-06 Q3/2012
• Socket
  FP5 PGA 988
• Technology
  14nm 22 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d