Ryzen Z1 vs Pentium Silver

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Aggregate performance score

Pentium Silver
2020
1.68

Ryzen Z1 outperforms Pentium Silver by a whopping 527% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking2308878
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Seriesno dataPhoenix (Zen 4, Ryzen 7040)
Power efficiencyno data29.65
DesignerIntelAMD
Manufacturerno dataTSMC
Architecture codenameno dataPhoenix (Zen4) (2023)
Release date1 July 2020 (5 years ago)May 2023 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium Silver and Ryzen Z1 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 data6 (Hexa-Core)
Threadsno data12
Base clock speedno data3.2 GHz
Boost clock speedno data4.9 GHz
L1 cacheno data64 KB (per core)
L2 cacheno data1 MB (per core)
L3 cacheno data16 MB (shared)
Chip lithographyno data4 nm
Die sizeno data137 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno data100 °C
64 bit support-+
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Silver and Ryzen Z1 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 data15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Silver and Ryzen Z1. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

AES-NI-+
AVX-+
Precision Boost 2no data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium Silver and Ryzen Z1 are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium Silver and Ryzen Z1. 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 740M

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium Silver and Ryzen Z1.

PCIe versionno data4.0
PCI Express lanesno data20

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 1.68
Ryzen Z1 10.53
+527%

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 2933
Samples: 297
Ryzen Z1 18433
+528%
Samples: 60

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 1.68 10.53

Ryzen Z1 has a 526.8% higher aggregate performance score.

The AMD Ryzen Z1 is our recommended choice as it beats the Intel Pentium Silver in performance tests.

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