A Geekbench database submission from an HP “17-ca2xxx” laptop computer (probably a prototype), spilled the beans on an upcoming AMD Athlon Gold 3150U processor, with nomenclature that appears impressed from the Pentium Gold. Intel makes use of the “Gold” and “Silver” model extensions to differentiate processors based mostly on its efficiency microarchitectures from these based mostly on its low-power microarchitectures (eg: a “Skylake” based mostly Pentium Gold, and a “Goldmont” based mostly Pentium Silver). The addition of “Gold” to the Athlon model might denote efficiency rivaling cell variations of Pentium Gold present in entry-level full-size notebooks.
Moving on to the check itself, and we see the Athlon Gold 3150U being listed as a “Raven Ridge” spinoff that includes a 2-core/4-thread CPU and Radeon graphics (probably “Vega 3” as with its desktop counterpart). The CPU is proven having a 2.40 GHz base frequency, and three.30 GHz enhance, 512 KB L2 cache per core, and Four MB shared L3 cache. The chip scores 3,559 single-core factors, and seven,336 factors multi-core, similar to entry-level dual-core processors from this technology. This makes us surprise what the Athlon “Silver” might be, and whether or not AMD is engaged on a brand new low-power microarchitecture within the close to future.
