Xeon E-2486 vs Ryzen 5 3500U

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Primary details

Comparing Ryzen 5 3500U and Xeon E-2486 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking1359not rated
Place by popularity32not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopServer
SeriesAMD Ryzen 5no data
Power efficiency27.51no data
Architecture codenamePicasso-U (Zen+) (2019−2020)Raptor Lake-S (2023−2024)
Release date6 January 2019 (5 years ago)14 December 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$506

Detailed specifications

Ryzen 5 3500U and Xeon E-2486 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)
Threads812
Base clock speed2.1 GHz3.5 GHz
Boost clock speed3.7 GHz5.6 GHz
Bus typePCIe 3.0no data
Bus rateno data16 GT/s
Multiplier21no data
L1 cache128K (per core)80 KB (per core)
L2 cache512K (per core)1.25 MB (per core)
L3 cache4 MB (shared)18 MB (shared)
Chip lithography12 nmIntel 7 nm
Die size209.78 mm2163 mm2
Maximum core temperature105 °C100 °C
Number of transistors4940 Millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility+no data

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 5 3500U and Xeon E-2486 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 configuration1 (Uniprocessor)1
SocketFP5FCLGA1700
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt95 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 3500U and Xeon E-2486. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsMMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SMEIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2
AES-NI++
FMA+-
AVX++
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data2
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data+
Idle Statesno data+
Thermal Monitoring-+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0no data+

Security technologies

Ryzen 5 3500U and Xeon E-2486 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data+
EDBno data+
Secure Keyno data+
OS Guardno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 5 3500U and Xeon E-2486 are enumerated here.

AMD-V+-
VT-dno data+
VT-xno data+
EPTno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 5 3500U and Xeon E-2486. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4DDR5-4800
Maximum memory size64 GB128 GB
Max memory channels22
Maximum memory bandwidth38.397 GB/sno data
ECC memory support++

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardAMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) ( - 1200 MHz)N/A

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 5 3500U and Xeon E-2486.

PCIe version3.05
PCI Express lanes1216

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 January 2019 14 December 2023
Physical cores 4 6
Threads 8 12
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 95 Watt

Ryzen 5 3500U has 533.3% lower power consumption.

Xeon E-2486, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, and 50% more physical cores and 50% more threads.

We couldn't decide between Ryzen 5 3500U and Xeon E-2486. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Ryzen 5 3500U is a notebook processor while Xeon E-2486 is a server/workstation one.


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