Xeon Silver 4309Y vs Ryzen 7 3700U

Place in the ranking	1311	633
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Server
Series	AMD Ryzen 7	no data
Power efficiency	28.39	10.91
Architecture codename	Picasso-U (Zen+) (2019−2020)	Ice Lake-SP (2021)
Release date	6 January 2019 (5 years ago)	6 April 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Ryzen 7 3700U 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 cores	4 (Quad-Core)	8 (Octa-Core)
Threads	8	16
Base clock speed	2.3 GHz	2.8 GHz
Boost clock speed	4 GHz	3.6 GHz
Bus type	PCIe 3.0	no data
Multiplier	23	no data
L1 cache	128K (per core)	64K (per core)
L2 cache	512K (per core)	1 MB (per core)
L3 cache	4 MB (shared)	12 MB (shared)
Chip lithography	12 nm	10 nm
Die size	209.78 mm²	no data
Maximum core temperature	105 °C	no data
Maximum case temperature (TCase)	no data	76 °C
Number of transistors	4940 Million	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	+	+

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 7 3700U 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 configuration	1 (Uniprocessor)	2
Socket	FP5	FCLGA4189
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	105 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 7 3700U and Xeon Silver 4309Y. 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	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	-	+
Deep Learning Boost	-	+

Security technologies

Ryzen 7 3700U and Xeon Silver 4309Y technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT	no data	+
EDB	no data	+
SGX	no data	Yes with Intel® SPS

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 7 3700U and Xeon Silver 4309Y 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 7 3700U and Xeon Silver 4309Y. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR4	DDR4-2667
Maximum memory size	64 GB	6 TB
Max memory channels	2	8
Maximum memory bandwidth	38.397 GB/s	no data
ECC memory support	+	+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

AMD Radeon RX Vega 10

no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 7 3700U and Xeon Silver 4309Y.

PCIe version	3.0	4.0
PCI Express lanes	12	64

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 7 3700U 4.50

Xeon Silver 4309Y 12.11
+169%

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 7 3700U 7143

Xeon Silver 4309Y 19237
+169%

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Ryzen 7 3700U 927

Xeon Silver 4309Y 1413
+52.4%

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Ryzen 7 3700U 2696

Xeon Silver 4309Y 7365
+173%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	4.50	12.11
Recency	6 January 2019	6 April 2021
Physical cores	4	8
Threads	8	16
Chip lithography	12 nm	10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	105 Watt

Ryzen 7 3700U has 600% lower power consumption.

Xeon Silver 4309Y, on the other hand, has a 169.1% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 2 years, 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads, and a 20% more advanced lithography process.

The Xeon Silver 4309Y is our recommended choice as it beats the Ryzen 7 3700U in performance tests.

Be aware that Ryzen 7 3700U is a notebook processor while Xeon Silver 4309Y is a server/workstation one.

Should you still have questions on choice between Ryzen 7 3700U and Xeon Silver 4309Y, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.