Ryzen 5 3500U vs Pentium N3540

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Aggregated performance score

Pentium N3540
2014
4 cores / 4 threads
0.78

Ryzen 5 3500U outperforms Pentium N3540 by a whopping 476% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Pentium N3540 and Ryzen 5 3500U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance ranking25111239
Place by popularitynot in top-10035
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel PentiumAMD Ryzen 5
Architecture codenameBay Trail-M (2013−2014)Picasso-U (Zen+)
Release date22 May 2014 (10 years ago)6 January 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$251no data
Current price$404 (1.6x MSRP)$672

Detailed specifications

Pentium N3540 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 cores4 (Quad-Core)4 (Quad-Core)
Threads48
Base clock speed2.16 GHz2.1 GHz
Boost clock speed2.66 GHz3.7 GHz
L1 cache224 KB128K (per core)
L2 cache2 MB512K (per core)
L3 cache2 MB L2 Cache4 MB (shared)
Chip lithography22 nm12 nm
Die sizeno data209.78 mm2
Maximum core temperature100 °C105 °C
Number of transistorsno data4500 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+
Unlocked multiplierNoNo

Compatibility

Information on Pentium N3540 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 configuration11 (Uniprocessor)
SocketFCBGA1170FP5
Power consumption (TDP)7.5 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium N3540 and Ryzen 5 3500U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataDDR4-2400 RAM, PCIe 3, 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-+
FMAno data+
AVXno data+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+no data
Turbo Boost Technology-no data
Hyper-Threading Technology-no data
Idle States+no data
Smart Connect+no data
StatusDiscontinuedno data

Security technologies

Pentium N3540 and Ryzen 5 3500U technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

EDB+no data
Secure Key+no data
Anti-Theft-no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium N3540 and Ryzen 5 3500U are enumerated here.

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

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium N3540 and Ryzen 5 3500U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3L-1333DDR4
Maximum memory size8 GB64 GB
Max memory channels22
Maximum memory bandwidth21.32 GB/s38.397 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+no data
Graphics max frequency896 MHzno data

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium N3540 and Ryzen 5 3500U integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported2no data

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Pentium N3540 and Ryzen 5 3500U integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX11.2no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium N3540 and Ryzen 5 3500U.

PCIe version2.03.0
PCI Express lanes412
USB revision3.0 and 2.0no data
Total number of SATA ports2no data
Number of USB ports5no data

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.

Pentium N3540 0.78
Ryzen 5 3500U 4.49
+476%

Ryzen 5 3500U outperforms Pentium N3540 by 476% based on our aggregated benchmark results.


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.

Benchmark coverage: 68%

Pentium N3540 1210
Ryzen 5 3500U 6950
+474%

Ryzen 5 3500U outperforms Pentium N3540 by 474% in Passmark.

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Benchmark coverage: 42%

Pentium N3540 193
Ryzen 5 3500U 860
+346%

Ryzen 5 3500U outperforms Pentium N3540 by 346% in GeekBench 5 Single-Core.

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Benchmark coverage: 42%

Pentium N3540 559
Ryzen 5 3500U 2454
+339%

Ryzen 5 3500U outperforms Pentium N3540 by 339% in GeekBench 5 Multi-Core.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 20%

Pentium N3540 1364
Ryzen 5 3500U 4558
+234%

Ryzen 5 3500U outperforms Pentium N3540 by 234% in Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 19%

Pentium N3540 4752
Ryzen 5 3500U 17231
+263%

Ryzen 5 3500U outperforms Pentium N3540 by 263% in Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 18%

Pentium N3540 21.92
Ryzen 5 3500U 12.88
+70.2%

Pentium N3540 outperforms Ryzen 5 3500U by 70% in wPrime 32.

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

Pentium N3540 2
Ryzen 5 3500U 8
+301%

Ryzen 5 3500U outperforms Pentium N3540 by 301% in Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core.

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

Benchmark coverage: 15%

Pentium N3540 157
Ryzen 5 3500U 650
+315%

Ryzen 5 3500U outperforms Pentium N3540 by 315% in Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core.

Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.

Benchmark coverage: 15%

Pentium N3540 42
Ryzen 5 3500U 143
+240%

Ryzen 5 3500U outperforms Pentium N3540 by 240% in Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core.

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R11.5 is an old benchmark by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version loads a single thread with ray tracing to render a glossy room full of crystal spheres and light sources.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

Pentium N3540 0.5
Ryzen 5 3500U 1.65
+230%

Ryzen 5 3500U outperforms Pentium N3540 by 230% in Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Pentium N3540 0.3
Ryzen 5 3500U 4.4
+1417%

Ryzen 5 3500U outperforms Pentium N3540 by 1417% in TrueCrypt AES.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Pentium N3540 1210
Ryzen 5 3500U 2455
+103%

Ryzen 5 3500U outperforms Pentium N3540 by 103% in WinRAR 4.0.

x264 encoding pass 1

x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.  

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Pentium N3540 54
Ryzen 5 3500U 135
+148%

Ryzen 5 3500U outperforms Pentium N3540 by 148% in x264 encoding pass 1.

x264 encoding pass 2

x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.  

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Pentium N3540 11
Ryzen 5 3500U 39
+253%

Ryzen 5 3500U outperforms Pentium N3540 by 253% in x264 encoding pass 2.

Geekbench 3 32-bit single-core

Benchmark coverage: 5%

Pentium N3540 988
Ryzen 5 3500U 3443
+248%

Ryzen 5 3500U outperforms Pentium N3540 by 248% in Geekbench 3 32-bit single-core.

Geekbench 3 32-bit multi-core

Benchmark coverage: 5%

Pentium N3540 3254
Ryzen 5 3500U 13040
+301%

Ryzen 5 3500U outperforms Pentium N3540 by 301% in Geekbench 3 32-bit multi-core.

Geekbench 2

Benchmark coverage: 5%

Pentium N3540 3490
Ryzen 5 3500U 11917
+241%

Ryzen 5 3500U outperforms Pentium N3540 by 241% in Geekbench 2.

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 0.78 4.49
Recency 22 May 2014 6 January 2019
Threads 4 8
Chip lithography 22 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 7 Watt 15 Watt

The Ryzen 5 3500U is our recommended choice as it beats the Pentium N3540 in performance tests.


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