AMD Athlon PRO 300GE vs Intel Pentium Silver J5040. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  AMD Athlon PRO 300 Intel Pentium J5000/N5000
• Family
  Athlon PRO Intel Pentium
• Form Factor
  Desktops -
• Generation
  6 9
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Series
  Athlon PRO 300 Series -

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

• Base Frequency
  3.4 GHz 2 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  2 4
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.4 GHz 3.2 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  3.4 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  - 2.4 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.

• DirectX Version
  12 12
• Execution units
  3 18
• Generation
  8 9.5
• GPU Frequency
  1100 MHz 250 MHz
• GPU name
  Radeon Vega 3 Graphics Intel UHD Graphics 605
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo 800 MHz
• Graphics Cores
  3 -
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 8 GB
• Release date
  Q1/2018 Q4/2017
• Shader
  192 144
• Technology
  14 nm 14 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 Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Pentium Silver J5040 and AMD Athlon PRO 300GE. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Max. Memory
  - 8 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR4 DDR4-2400LPDDR4-2400
• PCIe
  PCIe 3.0 -
• PCIe lanes
  16 6
• PCIe version
  3.0 2.0
• System Memory Specification
  2667 -

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon PRO 300GE and Intel Pentium Silver J5040 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 10 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Athlon PRO 300GE and Intel Pentium Silver J5040, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Picasso (Zen+) Gemini Lake
• Codename
  Picasso -
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• L1-Cache
  0.1875 MB -
• L2-Cache
  1 MB -
• L3-Cache
  4 MB 4 MB
• Manufacturer product ID (tray)
  YD300BC6M2OFH -
• Operating systems
  Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition / RHEL x86 64-Bit / Ubuntu x86 64-Bit -
• Release date
  2019-09-30 Q4/2019
• Socket
  AM4 BGA 1090
• Technology
  12nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d