AMD Athlon 3000G vs AMD FX-870K

Compare AMD Athlon Desktop 2 core CPU vs AMD 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1477 points
3% slightly better overall score
1430 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2742 points
0.51% slightly better gaming score
2728 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1135 points
5% slightly better multitasking score
1078 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1095 points
5% slightly better heavy workload score
1035 points

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Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
3.6 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
4 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

813th of 1,089
830th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Athlon Desktop
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Athlon 3000G vs FX-870K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon 3000G performs better than the FX-870K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-870K in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-870K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon 3000G. The info from our database shows that the FX-870K has more L2 cache than the Athlon 3000G

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Athlon 3000G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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