Ryzen 3 8440U vs Mobile Pentium 4 538

Primary details

Comparing Mobile Pentium 4 538 and Ryzen 3 8440U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated929
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesMobile Pentium 4no data
Power efficiencyno data27.24
Architecture codenamePrescott (2001−2005)Hawk Point-U (Zen 4 + Zen 4c) (2023)
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)6 December 2023 (less than a year ago)

Detailed specifications

Mobile Pentium 4 538 and Ryzen 3 8440U 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)4 (Quad-Core)
Threads18
Base clock speedno data3 GHz
Boost clock speed3.2 GHz4.7 GHz
Bus rate533 MHzno data
L1 cacheno data64 KB (per core)
L2 cacheno data1 MB (per core)
L3 cacheno data8 MB (shared)
Chip lithography90 nm4 nm
Die sizeno data137 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno data100 °C
Number of transistorsno data20,900 million
64 bit support-+
Windows 11 compatibility-no data

Compatibility

Information on Mobile Pentium 4 538 and Ryzen 3 8440U 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 dataFP7
Power consumption (TDP)88 Watt28 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Mobile Pentium 4 538 and Ryzen 3 8440U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataAES, AVX, AVX2, AVX512, FMA3, MMX (+), SHA, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4A, SSSE3
AES-NI-+
AVX-+
Precision Boost 2no data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Mobile Pentium 4 538 and Ryzen 3 8440U are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Mobile Pentium 4 538 and Ryzen 3 8440U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR5

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataAMD Radeon 740M

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Mobile Pentium 4 538 and Ryzen 3 8440U.

PCIe versionno data4.0
PCI Express lanesno data14

Pros & cons summary


Physical cores 1 4
Threads 1 8
Chip lithography 90 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 88 Watt 28 Watt

Ryzen 3 8440U has 300% more physical cores and 700% more threads, a 2150% more advanced lithography process, and 214.3% lower power consumption.

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