Pentium Silver vs Ryzen 5 4680U

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Aggregate performance score

Ryzen 5 4680U
2021
6 cores / 12 threads, 15 Watt
8.47
+326%

Ryzen 5 4680U outperforms Pentium Silver by a whopping 326% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Ryzen 5 4680U and Pentium Silver processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking9161946
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU)no data
Power efficiency51.49no data
Architecture codenameRenoir-U (Zen 2) (2020−2021)no data
Release date13 April 2021 (3 years ago)1 July 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Ryzen 5 4680U and Pentium Silver 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 cores6 (Hexa-Core)no data
Threads12no data
Base clock speed2.1 GHzno data
Boost clock speed4 GHzno data
Multiplier21no data
L1 cache384 KBno data
L2 cache3 MBno data
L3 cache8 MBno data
Chip lithography7 nmno data
Die size156 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature105 °Cno data
Number of transistors9800 Millionno data
64 bit support+-
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 5 4680U and Pentium Silver 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.

SocketFP6no data
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattno data

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 4680U and Pentium Silver. 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, SHAno data
AES-NI+-
FMA+-
AVX+-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 5 4680U and Pentium Silver are enumerated here.

AMD-V+-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 5 4680U and Pentium Silver. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4no data
Maximum memory size64 GBno data
Maximum memory bandwidth68.27 GB/sno data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardAMD Radeon RX Vega 7no data

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 4680U 8.47
+326%
Pentium Silver 1.99

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 4680U 12959
+326%
Pentium Silver 3045

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 8.47 1.99
Recency 13 April 2021 1 July 2020

Ryzen 5 4680U has a 325.6% higher aggregate performance score, and an age advantage of 9 months.

The Ryzen 5 4680U is our recommended choice as it beats the Pentium Silver in performance tests.


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