Steam Deck CPU (OLED) vs Ryzen 5 3500U

Primary details

Comparing Ryzen 5 3500U and Steam Deck CPU (OLED) processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking	1358	not rated
Place by popularity	32	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	AMD Ryzen 5	no data
Power efficiency	27.51	no data
Architecture codename	Picasso-U (Zen+) (2019−2020)	Van Gogh (2022−2023)
Release date	6 January 2019 (5 years ago)	9 November 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

Ryzen 5 3500U and Steam Deck CPU (OLED) 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	4 (Quad-Core)	4 (Quad-Core)
Threads	8	8
Base clock speed	2.1 GHz	2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed	3.7 GHz	3.5 GHz
Bus type	PCIe 3.0	no data
Multiplier	21	no data
L1 cache	128K (per core)	64 KB (per core)
L2 cache	512K (per core)	512 KB (per core)
L3 cache	4 MB (shared)	4 MB (shared)
Chip lithography	12 nm	6 nm
Die size	209.78 mm2	131 mm2
Maximum core temperature	105 °C	no data
Number of transistors	4940 Million	2,400 million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	+	no data

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 5 3500U and Steam Deck CPU (OLED) 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 (Uniprocessor)	1
Socket	FP5	AMD BGA ST1
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 3500U and Steam Deck CPU (OLED). You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	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	no data
AES-NI	+	+
FMA	+	-
AVX	+	+
Precision Boost 2	no data	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 5 3500U and Steam Deck CPU (OLED) are enumerated here.

AMD-V

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Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 5 3500U and Steam Deck CPU (OLED). Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR4	DDR5
Maximum memory size	64 GB	no data
Max memory channels	2	no data
Maximum memory bandwidth	38.397 GB/s	no data
ECC memory support	+	-

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) ( - 1200 MHz)

Radeon Navi II 8CU

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 5 3500U and Steam Deck CPU (OLED).

PCIe version	3.0	3.0
PCI Express lanes	12	8

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	6 January 2019	9 November 2023
Chip lithography	12 nm	6 nm

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