AMD Athlon 3000G: Test | Hashrate| CPU| Specs – The AMD Athlon 3000G is unique in its class for 53 euros with an officially freely definable multiplier. But even this change is actually not a change compared to the Athlon 2xxG. So the only real advance is the lower price. Only in the coming year will this segment also bring innovation.
The new AMD Athlon 3000G in the technology check
Between new launches with 16, 24 and 32 cores, AMD surprisingly sends a Zen processor with two cores and four threads into the race today. The Athlon 3000G addresses the completely opposite side of the market with a recommended retail price of $ 49 (before tax) or € 53. For this, the APU, a CPU with an integrated graphics unit, relies on an older design instead of Zen 2 and continues to pair it with Vega-GPU.
Is the Athlon 3000G new or not?
But how new is the Athlon 3000G actually? Is like Picasso Zen + in the 12 nm production or Zen in 14 nm as known from Raven Ridge and the predecessors AMD Athlon 200GE, 220GE and 240GE (test)?
Many parameters are exactly the same as those of the “old” APUs that have been available for a long time, but there are deviations. Already the type identification YD30000C6M20FH makes that clear. The first part stands for the name on the desktop, it gets interesting with C6M20FH after that. This episode can also be found in the Athlon Pro 300GE, which AMD explicitly advertises in the press release for the presentation in September and on the homepage as a 12 nm APU. The entire previous generation of the 200 Athlon series, however, was the C6M20FB on the go, which stands for 14 nm and the Raven Ridge series.
So is the 3000 Athlon a 12 nm Picasso derivative? When AMD’s product page is consulted, doubts arise. Because here 14 nm are mentioned as the manufacturing process – a mistake?
BitcoinMinersHashrate asks, AMD answers (not)
BitcoinMinersHashrate asked AMD and asked for clarification. The technical department finally confirmed the assumption: The Athlon 3000G will continue to be manufactured in 14 nm.
Simply an old processor with a new name should not be behind it. What exactly is the basis, however, AMD remained silent. Tools do not help, they recognize the APU as Picasso, sometimes as “Raven2” and sometimes with 12, sometimes with 14 nm. However, since such programs often only call up database information that has been entered beforehand, they are not always 100 percent correct.
However, whether the CPU uses Zen or Zen + is less relevant for the APUs than for the pure processors of the Ryzen family. Because Raven Ridge had already optimized Zen +, the actually second generation, even though the first generation Zen was used. In the end, the differences to a real Zen + are significantly smaller and blur in a dual-core solution with a low clock rate, as the test will show. There were significant changes in the memory benchmark from AIDA when switching from Zen to Zen +, however, both APUs show the same result here and now.
Tabular overview with predecessor
The equipment of the new model is therefore not surprising in the end, the progress takes place in the price-performance ratio. Either the new generation offers the same CPU clock for a lower price than the former 240GE or almost 300 MHz / 100 MHz more for the CPU or GPU than the 200GE for almost the same price. In the long run, the Athlon 3000G will most likely replace the three predecessors. AMD Athlon in the desktop
From now on officially overclockable
Overclocking was only unofficially possible with the Athlon 200, the new Athlon 3000G is officially equipped with a freely definable multiplier at the factory with a low TDP of 35 watts. AMD says it will clock as well as its predecessor. BitcoinMinersHashrate had already taken this into account in the test of the Athlon 200, where 4 GHz was not a problem. Indeed, the Athlon 3000G can’t do more (or less) today.
On the next page: Athlon 3000G in the benchmark: It is an “Athlon 240 GE v2”
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