Xeon Silver 4116T vs Ryzen 5 4500U
Aggregate performance score
Xeon Silver 4116T outperforms Ryzen 5 4500U by a considerable 40% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
Primary details
Comparing Ryzen 5 4500U and Xeon Silver 4116T processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.
| Place in the ranking | 1061 | 829 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Server |
| Series | AMD Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU) | Intel Xeon Silver |
| Power efficiency | 43.11 | 10.62 |
| Architecture codename | Renoir-U (Zen 2) (2020−2021) | Skylake (server) (2017−2018) |
| Release date | 6 January 2020 (5 years ago) | 11 July 2017 (7 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Ryzen 5 4500U and Xeon Silver 4116T 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 | 6 (Hexa-Core) | 12 (Dodeca-Core) |
| Threads | 6 | 24 |
| Base clock speed | 2.3 GHz | 2.1 GHz |
| Boost clock speed | 4 GHz | 3 GHz |
| Multiplier | 23 | 21 |
| L1 cache | 384 KB | 768 KB |
| L2 cache | 3 MB | 12 MB |
| L3 cache | 8 MB (shared) | 16.5 MB |
| Chip lithography | 7 nm | 14 nm |
| Die size | 156 mm2 | no data |
| Maximum core temperature | 105 °C | 91 °C |
| Number of transistors | 9800 Million | no data |
| 64 bit support | + | + |
| Windows 11 compatibility | + | + |
Compatibility
Information on Ryzen 5 4500U and Xeon Silver 4116T 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 | 2 (Multiprocessor) |
| Socket | FP6 | FCLGA3647 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | 85 Watt |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 4500U and Xeon Silver 4116T. 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, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME | Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512 |
| AES-NI | + | + |
| FMA | + | - |
| AVX | + | + |
| vPro | no data | + |
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | no data | + |
| Speed Shift | no data | + |
| Turbo Boost Technology | no data | 2.0 |
| Hyper-Threading Technology | no data | + |
| TSX | - | + |
| Turbo Boost Max 3.0 | no data | - |
Security technologies
Ryzen 5 4500U and Xeon Silver 4116T technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.
| TXT | no data | + |
| EDB | no data | + |
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 5 4500U and Xeon Silver 4116T are enumerated here.
| AMD-V | + | - |
| VT-d | no data | + |
| VT-x | no data | + |
| EPT | no data | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 5 4500U and Xeon Silver 4116T. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR4 | DDR4-2400 |
| Maximum memory size | 64 GB | 768 GB |
| Max memory channels | no data | 6 |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 68.27 GB/s | 115.212 GB/s |
| ECC memory support | - | + |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.
| Integrated graphics card | AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) ( - 1500 MHz) | no data |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 5 4500U and Xeon Silver 4116T.
| PCIe version | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| PCI Express lanes | 12 | 48 |
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.
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.
Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 6.79 | 9.48 |
| Recency | 6 January 2020 | 11 July 2017 |
| Physical cores | 6 | 12 |
| Threads | 6 | 24 |
| Chip lithography | 7 nm | 14 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | 85 Watt |
Ryzen 5 4500U has an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 466.7% lower power consumption.
Xeon Silver 4116T, on the other hand, has a 39.6% higher aggregate performance score, and 100% more physical cores and 300% more threads.
The Xeon Silver 4116T is our recommended choice as it beats the Ryzen 5 4500U in performance tests.
Be aware that Ryzen 5 4500U is a notebook processor while Xeon Silver 4116T is a server/workstation one.
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