Athlon 240GE vs Ryzen 5 3550H

Primary details

Comparing Ryzen 5 3550H and Athlon 240GE processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking	1208	1639
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	3.42
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop processor
Series	AMD Ryzen 5	AMD Athlon
Architecture codename	Picasso-U (Zen+) (2019−2020)	Zen (2017−2020)
Release date	6 January 2019 (5 years ago)	6 September 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$75

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

Detailed specifications

Ryzen 5 3550H and Athlon 240GE 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)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	8	4
Base clock speed	2.1 GHz	3.5 GHz
Boost clock speed	3.7 GHz	3.5 GHz
Bus type	PCIe 3.0	no data
Multiplier	21	35
L1 cache	384 KB	192 KB
L2 cache	2 MB	1 MB
L3 cache	4 MB	4 MB (shared)
Chip lithography	12 nm	14 nm
Die size	209.78 mm2	209.78 mm2
Maximum core temperature	105 °C	no data
Number of transistors	4940 Million	4950 Million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	+	-

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 5 3550H and Athlon 240GE 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 (Uniprocessor)	1 (Uniprocessor)
Socket	FP5	AM4
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 3550H and Athlon 240GE. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	MMX (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4A, AES, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, SHA	no data
AES-NI	+	+
FMA	-	+
AVX	+	+
Precision Boost 2	no data	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 5 3550H and Athlon 240GE are enumerated here.

AMD-V

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Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 5 3550H and Athlon 240GE. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR4	DDR4 Dual-channel
Maximum memory size	64 GB	64 GB
Max memory channels	2	2
Maximum memory bandwidth	38.4 GB/s	42.671 GB/s
ECC memory support	+	+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card Compare

AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 3

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 5 3550H and Athlon 240GE.

PCIe version	3.0	3.0
PCI Express lanes	12	12

Synthetic benchmark performance

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

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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.

Pros & cons summary

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Performance score	5.04	2.94
Integrated graphics card	4.50	2.98
Recency	6 January 2019	6 September 2018
Physical cores	4	2
Threads	8	4
Chip lithography	12 nm	14 nm

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