Pentium Silver vs Ryzen 3 5300U

Place in the ranking	1080	1950
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	AMD Lucienne (Zen 2, Ryzen 5000)	no data
Power efficiency	38.42	no data
Architecture codename	Lucienne-U (Zen 2) (2021)	no data
Release date	12 January 2021 (3 years ago)	1 July 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Ryzen 3 5300U and Pentium Silver 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 cores	4 (Quad-Core)	no data
Threads	8	no data
Base clock speed	2.6 GHz	no data
Boost clock speed	3.8 GHz	no data
Multiplier	26	no data
L1 cache	256 KB	no data
L2 cache	2 MB	no data
L3 cache	4 MB (shared)	no data
Chip lithography	7 nm	no data
Die size	156 mm²	no data
Maximum core temperature	105 °C	no data
Number of transistors	9,800 million	no data
64 bit support	+	-
Windows 11 compatibility	+	-

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 3 5300U and Pentium Silver 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 configuration	1	no data
Socket	FP6	no data
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	no data

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 3 5300U and Pentium Silver. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME	no data
AES-NI	+	-
FMA	+	-
AVX	+	-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 3 5300U and Pentium Silver are enumerated here.

AMD-V

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 3 5300U and Pentium Silver. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR4	no data
Maximum memory size	64 GB	no data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000)

no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 3 5300U and Pentium Silver.

PCIe version	3.0	no data
PCI Express lanes	12	no data

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.

Ryzen 3 5300U 6.32
+218%

Pentium Silver 1.99

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.

Ryzen 3 5300U 9679
+217%

Pentium Silver 3049