Xeon Silver 4310 vs Ryzen 5 3500U

Place in the ranking	1348	525
Place by popularity	36	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Server
Series	AMD Ryzen 5	no data
Power efficiency	27.57	10.99
Architecture codename	Picasso-U (Zen+) (2019−2020)	Ice Lake-SP (2021)
Release date	6 January 2019 (5 years ago)	6 April 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Ryzen 5 3500U and Xeon Silver 4310 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)	12 (Dodeca-Core)
Threads	8	24
Base clock speed	2.1 GHz	2.1 GHz
Boost clock speed	3.7 GHz	3.3 GHz
Bus type	PCIe 3.0	no data
Multiplier	21	no data
L1 cache	128K (per core)	64K (per core)
L2 cache	512K (per core)	1 MB (per core)
L3 cache	4 MB (shared)	18 MB (shared)
Chip lithography	12 nm	10 nm
Die size	209.78 mm²	no data
Maximum core temperature	105 °C	no data
Maximum case temperature (TCase)	no data	82 °C
Number of transistors	4940 Million	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	+	+

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 5 3500U and Xeon Silver 4310 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)	2
Socket	FP5	FCLGA4189
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	120 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 3500U and Xeon Silver 4310. 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	Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512
AES-NI	+	+
FMA	+	-
AVX	+	+
vPro	no data	+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	no data	+
Speed Shift	no data	+
Turbo Boost Technology	no data	2.0
Hyper-Threading Technology	no data	+
TSX	-	+
Deep Learning Boost	-	+

Security technologies

Ryzen 5 3500U and Xeon Silver 4310 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT	no data	+
EDB	no data	+
SGX	no data	Yes with Intel® SPS

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 5 3500U and Xeon Silver 4310 are enumerated here.

AMD-V	+	-
VT-d	no data	+
VT-x	no data	+
EPT	no data	+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 5 3500U and Xeon Silver 4310. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR4	DDR4-2667
Maximum memory size	64 GB	6 TB
Max memory channels	2	8
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)

no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 5 3500U and Xeon Silver 4310.

PCIe version	3.0	4.0
PCI Express lanes	12	64

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.

Ryzen 5 3500U 4.37

Xeon Silver 4310 13.94
+219%

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.

Ryzen 5 3500U 6939

Xeon Silver 4310 22146
+219%

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Ryzen 5 3500U 861

Xeon Silver 4310 1236
+43.6%

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Ryzen 5 3500U 2477

Xeon Silver 4310 7779
+214%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	4.37	13.94
Recency	6 January 2019	6 April 2021
Physical cores	4	12
Threads	8	24
Chip lithography	12 nm	10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	120 Watt

Ryzen 5 3500U has 700% lower power consumption.

Xeon Silver 4310, on the other hand, has a 219% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 2 years, 200% more physical cores and 200% more threads, and a 20% more advanced lithography process.

The Xeon Silver 4310 is our recommended choice as it beats the Ryzen 5 3500U in performance tests.

Be aware that Ryzen 5 3500U is a notebook processor while Xeon Silver 4310 is a server/workstation one.

Should you still have questions on choice between Ryzen 5 3500U and Xeon Silver 4310, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.