Ryzen 5 4600U vs Pentium M 780

Place in the ranking	3183	901
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	Pentium M	AMD Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU)
Power efficiency	0.84	53.47
Architecture codename	Dothan (2004−2005)	Renoir-U (Zen 2) (2020−2021)
Release date	25 July 2005 (19 years ago)	6 January 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium M 780 and Ryzen 5 4600U 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	1 (Single-Core)	6 (Hexa-Core)
Threads	1	12
Base clock speed	2.26 GHz	2.1 GHz
Boost clock speed	0.03 GHz	4 GHz
Bus rate	533 MHz	no data
Multiplier	no data	21
L1 cache	32 KB	64 KB (per core)
L2 cache	2 MB	512 KB (per core)
L3 cache	0 KB	8 MB (shared)
Chip lithography	90 nm	7 nm
Die size	87 mm²	156 mm²
Maximum core temperature	100 °C	105 °C
Number of transistors	144 million	9,800 million
64 bit support	-	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	+
VID voltage range	1.26V-1.404V	no data

Compatibility

Information on Pentium M 780 and Ryzen 5 4600U 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	1
Socket	PPGA478, H-PBGA479	FP6
Power consumption (TDP)	27 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium M 780 and Ryzen 5 4600U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	no data	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
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
PAE	32 Bit	no data
FSB parity	-	no data

Security technologies

Pentium M 780 and Ryzen 5 4600U 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 4600U 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 4600U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR2	DDR4
Maximum memory size	no data	64 GB
Maximum memory bandwidth	no data	68.27 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

On certain motherboards (Chipset feature)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) ( - 1500 MHz)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium M 780 and Ryzen 5 4600U.

PCIe version

no data

3.0

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.24	8.48
Recency	25 July 2005	6 January 2020
Physical cores	1	6
Threads	1	12
Chip lithography	90 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	27 Watt	15 Watt

Ryzen 5 4600U has a 3433.3% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 14 years, 500% more physical cores and 1100% more threads, a 1185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 80% lower power consumption.

The Ryzen 5 4600U is our recommended choice as it beats the Pentium M 780 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions on choice between Pentium M 780 and Ryzen 5 4600U, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.