Ryzen 7 260 vs Pentium Silver

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Aggregate performance score

Pentium Silver
2020
1.88
Ryzen 7 260
2025
8 cores / 16 threads, 45 Watt
15.37
+718%

Ryzen 7 260 outperforms Pentium Silver by a whopping 718% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking2069483
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Power efficiencyno data32.72
DesignerIntelAMD
Manufacturerno dataTSMC
Architecture codenameno dataHawk Point (2024−2025)
Release date1 July 2020 (4 years ago)6 January 2025 (less than a year ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium Silver and Ryzen 7 260 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 coresno data8 (Octa-Core)
Threadsno data16
Base clock speedno data3.8 GHz
Boost clock speedno data5.1 GHz
L1 cacheno data64 KB (per core)
L2 cacheno data1 MB (per core)
L3 cacheno data16 MB (shared)
Chip lithographyno data4 nm
Die sizeno data178 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno data100 °C
Number of transistorsno data25,000 million
64 bit support-+
Windows 11 compatibility-no data

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Silver and Ryzen 7 260 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 configurationno data1
Socketno dataFP8
Power consumption (TDP)no data45 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Silver and Ryzen 7 260. 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 Silver and Ryzen 7 260 are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium Silver and Ryzen 7 260. 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 Silver and Ryzen 7 260.

PCIe versionno data4.0
PCI Express lanesno data20

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 1.88 15.37
Recency 1 July 2020 6 January 2025

Ryzen 7 260 has a 717.6% higher aggregate performance score, and an age advantage of 4 years.

The AMD Ryzen 7 260 is our recommended choice as it beats the Intel Pentium Silver in performance tests.

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