Xeon Silver 4309Y vs Pentium U5600

Primary details

Comparing Pentium U5600 and Xeon Silver 4309Y processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

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Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopServer
SeriesIntel Pentiumno data
Power efficiencyno data10.92
Architecture codenameArrandale (2010−2011)Ice Lake-SP (2021)
Release date9 January 2011 (13 years ago)6 April 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium U5600 and Xeon Silver 4309Y 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 cores2 (Dual-core)8 (Octa-Core)
Threads216
Base clock speed1.33 GHz2.8 GHz
Boost clock speed1.33 GHz3.6 GHz
Bus typeDMI 1.0no data
Bus rate1 × 2.5 GT/sno data
Multiplier10no data
L1 cache64K (per core)64K (per core)
L2 cache256K (per core)1 MB (per core)
L3 cache3 MB (shared)12 MB (shared)
Chip lithography32 nm10 nm
Die size81+114 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature105 °Cno data
Maximum case temperature (TCase)no data76 °C
Number of transistors384 millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on Pentium U5600 and Xeon Silver 4309Y 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 configuration1 (Uniprocessor)2
SocketIntel BGA1288FCLGA4189
Power consumption (TDP)18 Watt105 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium U5600 and Xeon Silver 4309Y. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataIntel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512
AES-NI-+
FMA+-
AVX-+
vProno data+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Speed Shiftno data+
Turbo Boost Technology-2.0
Hyper-Threading Technology-+
TSX-+
Idle States+no data
Thermal Monitoring+-
Flex Memory Access+no data
PAE36 Bitno data
FDI+no data
Fast Memory Access+no data
Deep Learning Boost-+

Security technologies

Pentium U5600 and Xeon Silver 4309Y technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-+
EDB++
SGXno dataYes with Intel® SPS

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium U5600 and Xeon Silver 4309Y are enumerated here.

VT-d-+
VT-x-+
EPTno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium U5600 and Xeon Silver 4309Y. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3DDR4-2667
Maximum memory size8 GB6 TB
Max memory channels28
Maximum memory bandwidth12.799 GB/sno data
ECC memory support-+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardIntel® HD Graphics for Previous Generation Intel® Processorsno data
Clear Video+no data
Graphics max frequency500 MHzno data

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium U5600 and Xeon Silver 4309Y integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported2no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium U5600 and Xeon Silver 4309Y.

PCIe version2.04.0
PCI Express lanes1664

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.



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 U5600 624
Xeon Silver 4309Y 19237
+2983%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 9 January 2011 6 April 2021
Physical cores 2 8
Threads 2 16
Chip lithography 32 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 18 Watt 105 Watt

Pentium U5600 has 483.3% lower power consumption.

Xeon Silver 4309Y, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 10 years, 300% more physical cores and 700% more threads, and a 220% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Pentium U5600 and Xeon Silver 4309Y. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Pentium U5600 is a notebook processor while Xeon Silver 4309Y is a server/workstation one.


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