AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs AMD Athlon 3000G

Ryzen 5 1500X vs Athlon 3000G comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 1500X beats the Athlon 3000G in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon 3000G in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 1500X has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Athlon 3000G has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon 3000G. In terms of clock speed, the Ryzen 5 1500X and Athlon 3000G are identical in this regard. The Athlon 3000G outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1500X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1500X has significantly more L2 cache than the Athlon 3000G. The Ryzen 5 1500X also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1500X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.