Pentium Silver vs Ryzen 5 4680U

Primary details

Comparing Ryzen 5 4680U and Pentium Silver processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance ranking	852	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	AMD Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU)	no data
Architecture codename	Renoir-U (Zen 2)	no data
Release date	13 April 2021 (3 years ago)	1 July 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Ryzen 5 4680U 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	6 (Hexa-Core)	no data
Threads	12	no data
Base clock speed	2.2 GHz	no data
Boost clock speed	4 GHz	no data
L1 cache	384 KB	no data
L2 cache	3 MB	no data
L3 cache	8 MB	no data
Chip lithography	7 nm	no data
Die size	156 mm2	no data
Maximum core temperature	105 °C	no data
Number of transistors	9800 Million	no data
64 bit support	+	-
Windows 11 compatibility	-	-
Unlocked multiplier	No	No

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 5 4680U 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.

Socket	FP6	no data
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	no data

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 4680U and Pentium Silver. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	LPDDR4-4266 RAM, PCIe 3, 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	no data
AES-NI	+	no data
FMA	+	no data
AVX	+	no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 5 4680U and Pentium Silver are enumerated here.

AMD-V

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Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 5 4680U 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
Maximum memory bandwidth	68.27 GB/s	no data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

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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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Pros & cons summary

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Recency

13 April 2021

1 July 2020

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