Ryzen 5 3550H vs Atom Z3740

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Primary details

Comparing Atom Z3740 and Ryzen 5 3550H processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated1234
Place by popularitynot in top-10080
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Seriesno dataAMD Ryzen 5
Power efficiencyno data13.22
Architecture codenameBay Trail-T (2013−2014)Picasso-U (Zen+) (2019−2020)
Release date27 September 2013 (11 years ago)6 January 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$32no data

Detailed specifications

Atom Z3740 and Ryzen 5 3550H 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 cores4 (Quad-Core)4 (Quad-Core)
Threads48
Base clock speed1.33 GHz2.1 GHz
Boost clock speed1.86 GHz3.7 GHz
Bus typeno dataPCIe 3.0
Multiplierno data21
L1 cache64K (per core)128K (per core)
L2 cache512K (per core)512K (per core)
L3 cache0 KB4 MB (shared)
Chip lithography22 nm12 nm
Die sizeno data209.78 mm2
Maximum core temperature90 °C105 °C
Number of transistorsno data4940 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on Atom Z3740 and Ryzen 5 3550H 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 configuration11 (Uniprocessor)
SocketUTFCBGA1380FP5
Power consumption (TDP)2 Watt35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Atom Z3740 and Ryzen 5 3550H. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataMMX (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4A, AES, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, SHA
AES-NI++
AVX-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+no data

Security technologies

Atom Z3740 and Ryzen 5 3550H technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

Secure Key+no data
Identity Protection+-
Anti-Theft+no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Atom Z3740 and Ryzen 5 3550H are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+
VT-x+no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Atom Z3740 and Ryzen 5 3550H. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3DDR4
Maximum memory size4 GB64 GB
Max memory channels22
Maximum memory bandwidth17.1 GB/s38.4 GB/s
ECC memory support-+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardIntel® HD Graphics for Intel Atom® Processor Z3700 SeriesAMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
Quick Sync Video+-
Clear Video HD+no data
Graphics max frequency667 MHzno data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Atom Z3740 and Ryzen 5 3550H.

PCIe versionno data3.0
PCI Express lanesno data12

Synthetic benchmark performance

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



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.

Atom Z3740 621
Ryzen 5 3550H 7767
+1151%

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

Atom Z3740 963
Ryzen 5 3550H 4592
+377%

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

Atom Z3740 3380
Ryzen 5 3550H 19521
+478%

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

Atom Z3740 1838
Ryzen 5 3550H 7174
+290%

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

Atom Z3740 29
Ryzen 5 3550H 7.67
+278%

TrueCrypt AES

TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.

Atom Z3740 0.7
Ryzen 5 3550H 4.7
+544%

WinRAR 4.0

WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.

Atom Z3740 1569
Ryzen 5 3550H 2929
+86.7%

Geekbench 3 32-bit multi-core

Atom Z3740 2617
Ryzen 5 3550H 14437
+452%

Geekbench 3 32-bit single-core

Atom Z3740 792
Ryzen 5 3550H 3353
+323%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 September 2013 6 January 2019
Threads 4 8
Chip lithography 22 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 2 Watt 35 Watt

Atom Z3740 has 1650% lower power consumption.

Ryzen 5 3550H, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, 100% more threads, and a 83.3% more advanced lithography process.

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