AMD Athlon 300GE vs Intel Core i7-6700HQ

Processor comparisons 23-03-2021

   Let's say you can't decide which CPU to buy, you can make a decision by looking at the AMD Athlon 300GE vs Intel Core i7-6700HQ tests and see which is better for games or simple use for streaming, programming, rendering, machine learning, video editing. Here you can find all information from different benchmarks or real video editing and streaming tests. A thorough review of all the specifications, to make it easier to read, is summarized in the table.
   From the comparison video, you can get the results of joint testing in special test applications such as Furmark, RealBench, UserBenchmark, GeekBench 6, 5.2, MATLAB, AIDA64, 3DMark, PassMark, 7zip, Blender, Gears 5, DaVinci Resolve Studio, Prime95, World of Tanks enCore Benchmark, Blender, Handbrake, SuperPi, VeraCrypt, Cinebench 23 (20, 15), WPrime, PCMark 10, Dolphin Emulator.
   Gaming performance of CPUs in:

Watch Dogs Legion
Valorant
Grand Theft Auto V
Fortnite
Valheim
Rainbow Six Siege
Cyberpunk 2077
Death Stranding
Assassin's Creed Valhalla
Overwatch
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone
Red Dead Redemption 2
Apex Legends
Borderlands 3
Last Man Standing
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands
DOOM: Eternal
Fallout 76
Halo Infinite

After looking at the data these benchmarks and videos, you can already make an briefed decision about which CPU is better to buy for gaming Intel Core i7-6700HQ or AMD Athlon 300GE.

Summary benchmark results

As a percentage of the maximum value based on a sample from the entire base of all processors
Processor Benchmark

Athlon 300GE

51%

Core i7-6700HQ

51%

Gaming performance
Summary result of all game benchmarks.

Athlon 300GE

51%

Core i7-6700HQ

52%

For the maximum in this test, the results of the most powerful processor in the site database are taken. And it is clear that this is a server processor, on which no one will play games. Because the cost of this processor reaches several tens of thousands of dollars. And if it seems to you that the selected CPU has a small game result, just look at the FPS that it produces in real games in the summary table below.
List of other games in which processors were compared: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS GO), Metro Exodus, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, League of Legends (LOL), Hitman 3, Forza Horizon 4, Horizon Zero Dawn, DOTA 2A, Battlefield V, Ghostrunner, Microsoft Flight Simulator, Half-Life: Alyx, Control, Resident Evil 7 Biohazard, Monster Hunter World, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG), NBA 2K20.

Gaming benchmark

Fortnite	90.2	91.7
Valorant	102.5	104.2
Cyberpunk 2077	57.4	58.4
Apex Legends	96.4	98.0
Call of Duty Warzone	76.9	78.2
Overwatch	83.1	84.4
Red Dead Redemption 2	70.7	71.9
DOOM Eternal	51.3	52.1
Warzone	80.0	81.3
Assassin's Creed	86.1	87.5
Valheim	85.1	86.5

The numbers in this table indicate the maximum FPS that was received on the device with the corresponding processor. Depending on the configuration of the computer (RAM size and Video Card) and graphics quality settings (Ultra, Medium, Normal), the results may differ quite significantly. We recommend that you better study the results of the Cinebench, GeekBench and Passmark becnmarks.
The tested computers not only did they have different amounts of RAM and different video cards. But users also tested them at different screen resolutions: 2K, FullHD or 4K. So the game benchmark data is approximate. But all video cards met the average system requirements of games. To be sure exactly how much performance the processor will be in games, if you compare it in one assembly with the video card that is installed in your computer.

Power consumption

Athlon 300GE

89%

Core i7-6700HQ

71%

To make a finishing resolution on which processor is better, you should also consider the generation of its core. The newer the processor generation, the better its performance in games and benchmarks, as well as its energy efficiency. In this case the Athlon 300GE is more energy efficient than the Core i7-6700HQ as it consumes less power: 35W vs. 45W. Power consumption is particularly important for laptops. And TDP should be taken into account when choosing a processor cooling system. It is necessary to count so that the TDP data specified in the cooler specification is greater than the TDP of the compared processor.

Software benchmarks

If you plan to use the processor not only for gaming, but also for programming, machine learning, video editing or video rendering, streaming, then first of all you need to pay attention to the performance in multi-threaded mode. In this mode, the processor turns on all threads and cores that it has to the maximum to reach maximum performance. You will find out this data from the benchmark tables below. Before using the data from these tests, be sure to check whether the software you are going to use on your computer supports multi-threaded mode. Since there are still many programs that use only one core to run, and all the advantages of multi-core mode are unused.

Cinebench 23, 20 an 15
The results of this benchmark show Single-threaded and Multi-threaded CPU performance

	AMD Athlon 300GE	Intel Core i7-6700HQ
Cinbench 15 Single-core	89	148
Cinbench 15 Multi-core	471	692
Cinbench 20 Single-core	225	361
Cinbench 20 Multi-core	1027	1651
Cinbench 23 Single-core	580	891
Cinbench 23 Multi-core	2791	3958

Passmark
This popular benchmark displays Multi-threaded and Single-threaded processor performance

	AMD Athlon 300GE	Intel Core i7-6700HQ
Single-Core	2097	1937
Multi-Core	4919	6493

GeekBench 6, 5.2
This benchmark shows Multi-threaded and Single-threaded processor performance

	AMD Athlon 300GE	Intel Core i7-6700HQ
Single-Core	942	971
Multi-Core	2187	3643

Comparison of specifications

In the specification comparison table, the most useful will be the the possibility of overclocking it and release date of the processor. The newer the processor, the longer it will last you. And the easier it will be to upgrade the system later. The same benefits from the presence of overclocking. When the processor can be overclocked, increasing its performance, then it will continue to maintain maximum FPS even in new games. Accordingly, you do not need to buy a new CPU to enjoy the games any longer. The economy are obvious!

	AMD Athlon 300GE	Intel Core i7-6700HQ
Announcement date	July 07, 2019	April 01, 2015
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Socket	AM4	FCBGA1440
Core name	Picasso	Skylake
Architecture	Zen+	x86
Generation	2	6
Turbo Frequency		3.5 MHz
Frequency	3.4 MHz	2.6 MHz
Cores	2	4
Threads	4	8
Bus rate		8 GT/s
Bit	64	64
Lithography	14 nm	14 nm
Transistors count	2200 millions	1880 millions
Power consumption (TDP)	35 W	45 W
Memory type		DDR4-2133, LPDDR3-1866, DDR3L-1600
Max. Memory		64 Gb
Memory Frequency	2667
Memory bandwidth		34.1 GB/s
L1 cache	192KB
L2 cache	1MB
L3 cache	4MB	6 MB
Overclocking	Yes	Yes
Supports ECC	No	No
Part number	YD30GEC6M2OFH

In this comparison block, you should pay attention to the differences in clock speed and the number of cores. Here Athlon 300GE is 23% better than Core i7-6700HQ in terms of CPU frequency. Another difference is that Core i7-6700HQ has 2 more core than Athlon 300GE. Also keep in mind that high CPU frequency affects battery life through power consumption (relevant for laptops).

Result:
The number of parameters for which AMD Athlon 300GE is better: 8
The number of parameters for which Intel Core i7-6700HQ is better: 28
However, it should be realized that the summary data in the table above do not mean that you should be guided entirely by them and trust a simple quantitative comparison. Be sure to watch benchmarks video and read the opinion of of people who bought AMD Athlon 300GE and Intel Core i7-6700HQ before making a choice which CPU to buy for gaming and which not.

AMD Athlon 300GE - all data

• Cinebench r15 score
• Cinebench r20 score
• Cinebench r23 score
• GeekBench 6, 5.2 score

• AMD Athlon 300GE specs and review.

• Intel Core i7-6700HQ specs and review.