Ryzen 5 3500U vs Celeron E3400

Primary details

Comparing Celeron E3400 and Ryzen 5 3500U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking	2852	1359
Place by popularity	not in top-100	32
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	3.72	no data
Market segment	Desktop processor	Laptop
Series	no data	AMD Ryzen 5
Power efficiency	0.79	27.51
Architecture codename	Wolfdale (2008−2010)	Picasso-U (Zen+) (2019−2020)
Release date	17 January 2010 (14 years ago)	6 January 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$76	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

Detailed specifications

Celeron E3400 and Ryzen 5 3500U 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)	4 (Quad-Core)
Threads	2	8
Base clock speed	2.6 GHz	2.1 GHz
Boost clock speed	2.6 GHz	3.7 GHz
Bus type	no data	PCIe 3.0
Multiplier	no data	21
L1 cache	64 KB (per core)	128K (per core)
L2 cache	1 MB (shared)	512K (per core)
L3 cache	0 KB	4 MB (shared)
Chip lithography	45 nm	12 nm
Die size	82 mm2	209.78 mm2
Maximum core temperature	74 °C	105 °C
Number of transistors	228 million	4940 Million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	+
VID voltage range	0.85V-1.3625V	no data

Compatibility

Information on Celeron E3400 and Ryzen 5 3500U 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	1 (Uniprocessor)
Socket	LGA775	FP5
Power consumption (TDP)	65 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Celeron E3400 and Ryzen 5 3500U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	no data	MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME
AES-NI	-	+
FMA	-	+
AVX	-	+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	+	no data
Turbo Boost Technology	-	no data
Hyper-Threading Technology	-	no data
Idle States	+	no data
Thermal Monitoring	+	-

Security technologies

Celeron E3400 and Ryzen 5 3500U technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT	-	no data
EDB	+	no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Celeron E3400 and Ryzen 5 3500U are enumerated here.

AMD-V	-	+
VT-d	-	no data
VT-x	+	no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Celeron E3400 and Ryzen 5 3500U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR1, DDR2, DDR3	DDR4
Maximum memory size	no data	64 GB
Max memory channels	no data	2
Maximum memory bandwidth	no data	38.397 GB/s
ECC memory support	-	+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

no data

AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) ( - 1200 MHz)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Celeron E3400 and Ryzen 5 3500U.

PCIe version	2.0	3.0
PCI Express lanes	no data	12

Synthetic benchmark performance

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

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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.

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Pros & cons summary

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Performance score	0.54	4.36
Recency	17 January 2010	6 January 2019
Physical cores	2	4
Threads	2	8
Chip lithography	45 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	65 Watt	15 Watt

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