Ryzen 9 6980HS vs Pentium Silver

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Primary details

Comparing Pentium Silver and Ryzen 9 6980HS processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking1956not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Architecture codenameno dataRembrandt-HS (Zen 3+) (2022)
Release date1 July 2020 (4 years ago)January 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Pentium Silver and Ryzen 9 6980HS 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 data8 (Octa-Core)
Threadsno data16
Base clock speedno data3.3 GHz
Boost clock speedno data5 GHz
L1 cacheno data64K (per core)
L2 cacheno data512K (per core)
L3 cacheno data16 MB (shared)
Chip lithographyno data6 nm
Die sizeno data208 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno data95 °C
64 bit support-+
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on Pentium Silver and Ryzen 9 6980HS 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)no data45 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium Silver and Ryzen 9 6980HS. 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-+
Precision Boost 2no data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium Silver and Ryzen 9 6980HS are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium Silver and Ryzen 9 6980HS. 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 680M

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium Silver and Ryzen 9 6980HS.

PCIe versionno data4.0
PCI Express lanesno data20

Pros & cons summary


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