Ryzen 5 2600 vs Pentium M 780

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Primary details

Comparing Pentium M 780 and Ryzen 5 2600 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated903
Place by popularitynot in top-10022
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data9.80
Market segmentLaptopDesktop processor
SeriesPentium MAMD Ryzen 5
Power efficiencyno data12.08
Architecture codenameDothan (2004−2005)Pinnacle Riege (Zen+) (2018)
Release date25 July 2005 (19 years ago)19 April 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$199

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Pentium M 780 and Ryzen 5 2600 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 speed2.26 GHz3.4 GHz
Boost clock speed0.03 GHz3.9 GHz
Bus rate533 MHz4 × 8 GT/s
Multiplierno data34
L1 cache32 KB96K (per core)
L2 cache2 MB3 MB
L3 cache0 KB16 MB (shared)
Chip lithography90 nm12 nm
Die size87 mm2192 mm2
Maximum core temperature100 °C95 °C
Number of transistors144 million4,800 million
64 bit support-+
Windows 11 compatibility-+
Unlocked multiplier-+
VID voltage range1.26V-1.404Vno data

Compatibility

Information on Pentium M 780 and Ryzen 5 2600 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 configuration11 (Uniprocessor)
SocketPPGA478, H-PBGA479AM4
Power consumption (TDP)27 Watt65 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium M 780 and Ryzen 5 2600. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataMMX, 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
AES-NI-+
FMA-+
AVX-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+no data
Turbo Boost Technology-no data
Hyper-Threading Technology-no data
Idle States-no data
Demand Based Switching-no data
PAE32 Bitno data
FSB parity-no data
Precision Boost 2no data+

Security technologies

Pentium M 780 and Ryzen 5 2600 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-no data
EDB+no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium M 780 and Ryzen 5 2600 are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+
VT-x-no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium M 780 and Ryzen 5 2600. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR2DDR4
Maximum memory sizeno data128 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
Maximum memory bandwidthno data46.933 GB/s
ECC memory support-+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardOn certain motherboards (Chipset feature)-

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium M 780 and Ryzen 5 2600.

PCIe versionno data3.0
PCI Express lanesno data20

Synthetic benchmark performance

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



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.

Pentium M 780 933
Ryzen 5 2600 9290
+896%

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

Pentium M 780 80
Ryzen 5 2600 5.5
+1355%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 July 2005 19 April 2018
Physical cores 1 6
Threads 1 12
Chip lithography 90 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 27 Watt 65 Watt

Pentium M 780 has 140.7% lower power consumption.

Ryzen 5 2600, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 12 years, 500% more physical cores and 1100% more threads, and a 650% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Pentium M 780 and Ryzen 5 2600. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Pentium M 780 is a notebook processor while Ryzen 5 2600 is a desktop one.


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