Xeon Platinum 8174 vs Ryzen 5 5500U

Primary details

Comparing Ryzen 5 5500U and Xeon Platinum 8174 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking914not rated
Place by popularity14not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopServer
SeriesAMD Lucienne (Zen 2, Ryzen 5000)no data
Power efficiency51.67no data
Architecture codenameLucienne-U (Zen 2) (2021)no data
Release date12 January 2021 (3 years ago)1 July 2017 (7 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Ryzen 5 5500U and Xeon Platinum 8174 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 GHz3.1 GHz
Boost clock speed4 GHz3.9 GHz
Multiplier21no data
L1 cache384 KBno data
L2 cache3 MBno data
L3 cache8 MB (shared)33 MB
Chip lithography7 nm14 nm
Die size156 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature105 °C65 °C
Number of transistors9,800 millionno data
64 bit support+-
Windows 11 compatibility+-

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 5 5500U and Xeon Platinum 8174 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 configuration1no data
SocketFP6no data
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt240 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 5500U and Xeon Platinum 8174. 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® 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-+
Turbo Boost Max 3.0no data-

Security technologies

Ryzen 5 5500U and Xeon Platinum 8174 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data+
EDBno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 5 5500U and Xeon Platinum 8174 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 Platinum 8174. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4DDR4-2666
Maximum memory size64 GB768 GB
Max memory channelsno data6
ECC memory support-+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardAMD Radeon Vega 7no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 5 5500U and Xeon Platinum 8174.

PCIe version3.03.0
PCI Express lanes1248

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 January 2021 1 July 2017
Physical cores 6 24
Threads 12 48
Chip lithography 7 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 240 Watt

Ryzen 5 5500U has an age advantage of 3 years, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 1500% lower power consumption.

Xeon Platinum 8174, on the other hand, has 300% more physical cores and 300% more threads.

We couldn't decide between Ryzen 5 5500U and Xeon Platinum 8174. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Ryzen 5 5500U is a notebook processor while Xeon Platinum 8174 is a server/workstation one.


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