Ryzen 5 3600 vs Celeron M 925

Primary details

Comparing Celeron M 925 and Ryzen 5 3600 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated687
Place by popularitynot in top-1008
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data24.69
Market segmentLaptopDesktop processor
SeriesIntel Celeron MAMD Ryzen 5
Power efficiencyno data16.27
Architecture codenamePenryn (2008−2011)Matisse (2019−2020)
Release date1 January 2011 (13 years ago)7 July 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$70$199

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Celeron M 925 and Ryzen 5 3600 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)6 (Hexa-Core)
Threads112
Base clock speedno data3.6 GHz
Boost clock speed2.3 GHz4.2 GHz
Bus rate800 MHzno data
L1 cacheno data384 KB
L2 cache1 MB3 MB
L3 cacheno data32 MB (shared)
Chip lithography45 nm7 nm, 12 nm
Die size107 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature105 °Cno data
Number of transistors410 Million4,800 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+
Unlocked multiplier-+

Compatibility

Information on Celeron M 925 and Ryzen 5 3600 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 (Uniprocessor)
SocketPGA478AM4
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt65 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Celeron M 925 and Ryzen 5 3600. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

AES-NI-+
AVX-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+no data
Precision Boost 2no data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Celeron M 925 and Ryzen 5 3600 are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Celeron M 925 and Ryzen 5 3600. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR4 Dual-channel
Maximum memory sizeno data128 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
Maximum memory bandwidthno data51.196 GB/s

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 January 2011 7 July 2019
Physical cores 1 6
Threads 1 12
Chip lithography 45 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 65 Watt

Celeron M 925 has 85.7% lower power consumption.

Ryzen 5 3600, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 8 years, 500% more physical cores and 1100% more threads, and a 542.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Celeron M 925 and Ryzen 5 3600. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Celeron M 925 is a notebook processor while Ryzen 5 3600 is a desktop one.


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