Ryzen 5 PRO 7540U vs Pentium Silver

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Aggregate performance score

Pentium Silver
2020
1.91
Ryzen 5 PRO 7540U
2023
6 cores / 12 threads, 15 Watt
11.50
+502%

Ryzen 5 PRO 7540U outperforms Pentium Silver by a whopping 502% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Pentium Silver and Ryzen 5 PRO 7540U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking1973685
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Seriesno dataAMD Phoenix (Zen 4, Ryzen 7040)
Power efficiencyno data72.56
Architecture codenameno dataPhoenix (Zen4) (2023)
Release date1 July 2020 (4 years ago)23 May 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium Silver and Ryzen 5 PRO 7540U 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 coresno data6 (Hexa-Core)
Threadsno data12
Base clock speedno data3.2 GHz
Boost clock speedno data4.9 GHz
L1 cacheno data384 KB
L2 cacheno data6 MB
L3 cacheno data16 MB
Chip lithographyno data4 nm
Die sizeno data178 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno data100 °C
64 bit support-+
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Silver and Ryzen 5 PRO 7540U 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.

Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataAMD Radeon 740M ( - 2500 MHz)

Synthetic benchmark performance

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


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Pentium Silver 1.91
Ryzen 5 PRO 7540U 11.50
+502%

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.

Pentium Silver 3037
Ryzen 5 PRO 7540U 18265
+501%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 1.91 11.50
Recency 1 July 2020 23 May 2023

Ryzen 5 PRO 7540U has a 502.1% higher aggregate performance score, and an age advantage of 2 years.

The Ryzen 5 PRO 7540U is our recommended choice as it beats the Pentium Silver in performance tests.


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