Itanium 9540 vs Ryzen 9 4900H

Primary details

Comparing Ryzen 9 4900H and Itanium 9540 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking632not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopServer
SeriesAMD Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU)no data
Power efficiency25.35no data
Architecture codenameRenoir-H (Zen 2) (2020)no data
Release date16 March 2020 (4 years ago)1 October 2012 (12 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Ryzen 9 4900H and Itanium 9540 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 cores8 (Octa-Core)8 (Octa-Core)
Threads1616
Base clock speed3.3 GHz2.13 GHz
Boost clock speed4.4 GHzno data
Bus rateno data6.4 GT/s
Multiplier33no data
L1 cache512 KBno data
L2 cache4 MBno data
L3 cache8 MB24 MB
Chip lithography7 nm32 nm
Die size156 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature105 °C95 °C
Number of transistors9800 Millionno data
64 bit support+-
Windows 11 compatibility+-

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 9 4900H and Itanium 9540 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
SocketFP6LGA1248
Power consumption (TDP)45 Watt170 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 9 4900H and Itanium 9540. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsMMX (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4A, AES, AVX, AVX2, FMA, SHAno data
AES-NI+-
FMA+-
AVX+-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data2.0
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data+

Security technologies

Ryzen 9 4900H and Itanium 9540 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

EDBno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 9 4900H and Itanium 9540 are enumerated here.

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

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 9 4900H and Itanium 9540. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4no data
Maximum memory size64 GBno data
Max memory channels4no data
Maximum memory bandwidth68.27 GB/sno data
ECC memory support-+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardAMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 9 4900H and Itanium 9540.

PCIe version3.0no data

Pros & cons summary


Recency 16 March 2020 1 October 2012
Chip lithography 7 nm 32 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 45 Watt 170 Watt

Ryzen 9 4900H has an age advantage of 7 years, a 357.1% more advanced lithography process, and 277.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Ryzen 9 4900H and Itanium 9540. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Ryzen 9 4900H is a notebook processor while Itanium 9540 is a server/workstation one.


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