Ryzen 9 7940HS vs Pentium III 1000S

Primary details

Comparing Pentium III 1000S and Ryzen 9 7940HS processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated301
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processorLaptop
Power efficiencyno data51.73
Architecture codenameTualatin (2000−2002)Phoenix-HS (Zen 4) (2023)
Release dateJune 2001 (23 years ago)January 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium III 1000S and Ryzen 9 7940HS 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 cores1 (Single-Core)8 (Octa-Core)
Threads116
Base clock speedno data4 GHz
Boost clock speed1 GHz5.2 GHz
L1 cache8 KB64K (per core)
L2 cache512 KB1 MB (per core)
L3 cache0 KB16 MB (shared)
Chip lithography130 nm4 nm
Die size80 mm2178 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno data100 °C
Maximum case temperature (TCase)69 °Cno data
Number of transistors44 million25,000 million
64 bit support-+
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on Pentium III 1000S and Ryzen 9 7940HS 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
Socket370FP8
Power consumption (TDP)30 Watt35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium III 1000S and Ryzen 9 7940HS. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataRyzen AI, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, AVX-512, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME
AES-NI-+
FMA-+
AVX-+
Precision Boost 2no data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium III 1000S and Ryzen 9 7940HS are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium III 1000S and Ryzen 9 7940HS. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR5

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataAMD Radeon 780M

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium III 1000S and Ryzen 9 7940HS.

PCIe versionno data4.0
PCI Express lanesno data20

Pros & cons summary


Physical cores 1 8
Threads 1 16
Chip lithography 130 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 35 Watt

Pentium III 1000S has 16.7% lower power consumption.

Ryzen 9 7940HS, on the other hand, has 700% more physical cores and 1500% more threads, and a 3150% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Pentium III 1000S and Ryzen 9 7940HS. We've got no test results to judge.

Note that Pentium III 1000S is a desktop processor while Ryzen 9 7940HS is a notebook one.


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