Ryzen 5 4600H vs Phenom II X4 P940

Primary details

Comparing Phenom II X4 P940 and Ryzen 5 4600H processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated849
Place by popularitynot in top-10064
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Series4x AMD Phenom IIAMD Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU)
Power efficiencyno data19.10
Architecture codenameChamplain (2010−2011)Renoir-H (Zen 2) (2020)
Release date4 October 2010 (14 years ago)6 January 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Phenom II X4 P940 and Ryzen 5 4600H 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 cores4 (Quad-Core)6 (Hexa-Core)
Threads412
Base clock speedno data3 GHz
Boost clock speed1.7 GHz4 GHz
Bus rate3600 MHzno data
Multiplierno data30
L1 cache512 KB384 KB
L2 cache2 MB3 MB
L3 cacheno data8 MB (shared)
Chip lithography45 nm7 nm
Die sizeno data156 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno data105 °C
Number of transistorsno data9800 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on Phenom II X4 P940 and Ryzen 5 4600H 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
SocketS1 (S1g4)FP6
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt45 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Phenom II X4 P940 and Ryzen 5 4600H. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsMMX, 3DNow, SSE (1,2,3,4A), AMD64, Enhanced Virus Protection, Virtualization, HyperTransport 3.0MMX, 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-+
VirusProtect+-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Phenom II X4 P940 and Ryzen 5 4600H are enumerated here.

AMD-V++

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Phenom II X4 P940 and Ryzen 5 4600H. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3DDR4
Maximum memory sizeno data64 GB
Maximum memory bandwidthno data68.27 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataAMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) ( - 1500 MHz)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Phenom II X4 P940 and Ryzen 5 4600H.

PCIe versionno data3.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 October 2010 6 January 2020
Physical cores 4 6
Threads 4 12
Chip lithography 45 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 45 Watt

Phenom II X4 P940 has 80% lower power consumption.

Ryzen 5 4600H, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 years, 50% more physical cores and 200% more threads, and a 542.9% more advanced lithography process.

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