AMD Athlon Gold PRO 3150G

The AMD Athlon Gold PRO 3150G is a desktop processor with 4 cores, launched in July 2020. It is part of the Athlon lineup, using the Zen+ (Dali) architecture with Socket AM4. Athlon Gold PRO 3150G has 4MB of L3 cache and operates at 3.5 GHz by default, but can boost up to 3.9 GHz, depending on the workload. AMD is building the Athlon Gold PRO 3150G on a 12 nm production process, the transistor count is unknown. The silicon die of the chip is not fabricated at AMD, but at the foundry of GlobalFoundries. The multiplier is locked on Athlon Gold PRO 3150G, which limits its overclocking capabilities. With a TDP of 65 W, the Athlon Gold PRO 3150G consumes typical power levels for a modern PC. AMD's processor supports DDR4 memory with adual-channel interface. The highest officially supported memory speed is 2933 MHz, but with overclocking (and the right memory modules) you can go even higher. ECC memory is supported, too, which is an important capability for mission-critical systems, to avoid data corruption. For communication with other components in the machine, Athlon Gold PRO 3150G uses a PCI-Express Gen 4 connection. This processor features the Radeon Vega 3 integrated graphics solution. Hardware virtualization is available on the Athlon Gold PRO 3150G, which greatly improves virtual machine performance. Programs using Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) will run on this processor, boosting performance for calculation-heavy applications. Besides AVX, AMD is including the newer AVX2 standard, too, but not AVX-512.