Ryzen 7 249 vs Pentium Silver

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Aggregate performance score

Pentium Silver
2020
1.70

Ryzen 7 249 outperforms Pentium Silver by a whopping 880% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking2428538
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Seriesno dataAMD Hawk Point (Zen 4/4c)
DesignerIntelAMD
Architecture codenameno dataHawk Point-H (Zen 4) (2024−2026)
Release date1 July 2020 (6 years ago)2 June 2026 (less than a year ago)

Detailed specifications

Basic parameters of Pentium Silver and Ryzen 7 249: 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 coresno data8 (Octa-Core)
Threadsno data16
Base clock speedno data3.1 GHz
Boost clock speedno data4.9 GHz
L1 cacheno data512 KB
L2 cacheno data8 MB
L3 cacheno data16 MB
Chip lithographyno data4 nm
Maximum core temperatureno data100 °C
64 bit support-+
Windows 11 compatibility-no data

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Silver and Ryzen 7 249 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.

Socketno dataFP7r2/FP8

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Silver and Ryzen 7 249. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataUSB 4, AVX, AVX2, AVX512, FMA3, MMX (+), SHA, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4A
AVX-+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium Silver and Ryzen 7 249. 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 ( - 2500 MHz)

Synthetic benchmarks

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.

Pentium Silver 1.70
Ryzen 7 249 16.66
+880%

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. Other than that, Passmark measures multi-core performance.

Pentium Silver 2908
Samples: 338
Ryzen 7 249 28519
+881%
Samples: 4

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 1.70 16.66
Recency 1 July 2020 2 June 2026

Ryzen 7 249 has a 880% higher aggregate performance score, and an age advantage of 5 years.

The AMD Ryzen 7 249 is our recommended choice as it beats the Intel Pentium Silver in performance tests.

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