Pentium Silver vs A4-5300

Place in the ranking	2556	1956
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Desktop processor	Laptop
Series	AMD A-Series (Desktop)	no data
Power efficiency	1.25	no data
Architecture codename	Trinity (2012−2013)	no data
Release date	2 October 2012 (12 years ago)	1 July 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

A4-5300 and Pentium Silver basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores	2 (Dual-core)	no data
Threads	2	no data
Base clock speed	3.4 GHz	no data
Boost clock speed	3.6 GHz	no data
L1 cache	128K (per core)	no data
L2 cache	1 MB (per core)	no data
L3 cache	0 KB	no data
Chip lithography	32 nm	no data
Die size	246 mm²	no data
Maximum case temperature (TCase)	70 °C	no data
Number of transistors	1,178 million	no data
64 bit support	+	-
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-

Compatibility

Information on A4-5300 and Pentium Silver compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration	1	no data
Socket	FM2	no data
Power consumption (TDP)	65 Watt	no data

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by A4-5300 and Pentium Silver. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	MMX (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4A, AES, AVX, XOP, FMA3, FMA4	no data
AES-NI	+	-
FMA	+	-
AVX	+	-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by A4-5300 and Pentium Silver are enumerated here.

AMD-V

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by A4-5300 and Pentium Silver. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types

DDR3

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Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

AMD Radeon HD 7480D

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Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

A4-5300 0.86

Pentium Silver 1.91
+122%

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

A4-5300 1360

Pentium Silver 3034
+123%