Xeon Gold 5318S vs Ryzen 5 5500U

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Primary details

Comparing Ryzen 5 5500U and Xeon Gold 5318S processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking929not rated
Place by popularity19not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopServer
SeriesAMD Lucienne (Zen 2, Ryzen 5000)no data
Power efficiency31.00no data
Architecture codenameLucienne-U (Zen 2) (2021)Ice Lake-SP (2021)
Release date12 January 2021 (3 years ago)6 April 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Ryzen 5 5500U and Xeon Gold 5318S 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)24 (Tetracosa-Core)
Threads1248
Base clock speed2.1 GHz2.1 GHz
Boost clock speed4 GHz3.4 GHz
Multiplier21no data
L1 cache384 KB64K (per core)
L2 cache3 MB1 MB (per core)
L3 cache8 MB (shared)36 MB (shared)
Chip lithography7 nm10 nm
Die size156 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature105 °Cno data
Maximum case temperature (TCase)no data87 °C
Number of transistors9,800 millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility++

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 5 5500U and Xeon Gold 5318S 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 configuration12
SocketFP6FCLGA4189
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt165 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 5500U and Xeon Gold 5318S. 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® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512
AES-NI++
FMA+-
AVX++
vProno data+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Speed Shiftno data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data2.0
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data+
TSX-+
Deep Learning Boost-+

Security technologies

Ryzen 5 5500U and Xeon Gold 5318S technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data+
EDBno data+
SGXno dataYes with Intel® SPS

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 5 5500U and Xeon Gold 5318S 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 5500U and Xeon Gold 5318S. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4DDR4-2933
Maximum memory size64 GB6 TB
Max memory channelsno data8
ECC memory support-+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardAMD Radeon RX Vega 7 ( - 1800 MHz)no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 5 5500U and Xeon Gold 5318S.

PCIe version3.04.0
PCI Express lanes1264

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 January 2021 6 April 2021
Physical cores 6 24
Threads 12 48
Chip lithography 7 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 165 Watt

Ryzen 5 5500U has a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 1000% lower power consumption.

Xeon Gold 5318S, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 months, and 300% more physical cores and 300% more threads.

We couldn't decide between Ryzen 5 5500U and Xeon Gold 5318S. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Ryzen 5 5500U is a notebook processor while Xeon Gold 5318S is a server/workstation one.


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