Ryzen 7 7840HS vs Pentium Silver

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Aggregate performance score

Pentium Silver
2020
2.00
Ryzen 7 7840HS
2023
8 cores / 16 threads, 35 Watt
18.89
+845%

Ryzen 7 7840HS outperforms Pentium Silver by a whopping 845% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Pentium Silver and Ryzen 7 7840HS processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking1950328
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Power efficiencyno data49.21
Architecture codenameno dataPhoenix-HS (Zen 4) (2023)
Release date1 July 2020 (4 years ago)January 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium Silver and Ryzen 7 7840HS 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 data64K (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-+

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Silver and Ryzen 7 7840HS 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 data35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Silver and Ryzen 7 7840HS. 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 7840HS are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium Silver and Ryzen 7 7840HS. 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 7840HS.

PCIe versionno data4.0
PCI Express lanesno data20

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 Silver 2.00
Ryzen 7 7840HS 18.89
+845%

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.

Pentium Silver 3056
Ryzen 7 7840HS 28905
+846%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 2.00 18.89

Ryzen 7 7840HS has a 844.5% higher aggregate performance score.

The Ryzen 7 7840HS is our recommended choice as it beats the Pentium Silver in performance tests.


Should you still have questions on choice between Pentium Silver and Ryzen 7 7840HS, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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