Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Celeron M 540

Primary details

Comparing Celeron M 540 and Ryzen 9 5900HX processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated508
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesCeleron MAMD Cezanne (Zen 3, Ryzen 5000)
Power efficiencyno data29.83
Architecture codenameMerom (2006−2008)Cezanne-H (Zen 3) (2021)
Release date1 October 2007 (17 years ago)12 January 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Celeron M 540 and Ryzen 9 5900HX 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 cores1 (Single-Core)8 (Octa-Core)
Threads116
Base clock speedno data3.3 GHz
Boost clock speed1.86 GHz4.6 GHz
Bus rate533 MHzno data
Multiplierno data33
L1 cacheno data64K (per core)
L2 cache1 MB512K (per core)
L3 cacheno data16 MB (shared)
Chip lithography65 nm7 nm
Die sizeno data156 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno data105 °C
Number of transistorsno data9,800 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on Celeron M 540 and Ryzen 9 5900HX 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 configurationno data1
Socketno dataFP6
Power consumption (TDP)30 Watt45 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Celeron M 540 and Ryzen 9 5900HX. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataMMX (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4A, AES, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, SHA
AES-NI-+
AVX-+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Celeron M 540 and Ryzen 9 5900HX are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Celeron M 540 and Ryzen 9 5900HX. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR4

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataAMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Celeron M 540 and Ryzen 9 5900HX.

PCIe versionno data3.0

Synthetic benchmark performance

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



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.

Celeron M 540 542
Ryzen 9 5900HX 22529
+4057%

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

Celeron M 540 1744
Ryzen 9 5900HX 6409
+267%

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

Celeron M 540 803
Ryzen 9 5900HX 14254
+1676%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2007 12 January 2021
Physical cores 1 8
Threads 1 16
Chip lithography 65 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 45 Watt

Celeron M 540 has 50% lower power consumption.

Ryzen 9 5900HX, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 13 years, 700% more physical cores and 1500% more threads, and a 828.6% more advanced lithography process.

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