AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8540U vs Intel Core i5 1230U

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AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8540U

Intel Core i5 1230U

We compared two laptop CPUs: AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8540U with 6 cores 3.7GHz and Intel Core i5 1230U with 10 cores 1.0GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8540U 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Higher specification of memory (7500 vs 5200)

Larger memory bandwidth (89.6GB/s vs 76.8GB/s)

Higher base frequency (3.7GHz vs 1.0GHz)

Larger L3 cache size (16MB vs 12MB)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 10nm)

Intel Core i5 1230U 's Advantages

Newer PCIe version (4.0 vs 4)

Lower TDP (9W vs 30W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8540U +27%

2359

Intel Core i5 1230U

1848

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8540U +15%

8271

Intel Core i5 1230U

7169

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8540U

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Intel Core i5 1230U

General Parameters

Apr 2024

Release Date

Feb 2022

AMD

Manufacturer

Intel

Laptop

Type

Laptop

-

Instruction Set

x86-64

Hawk Point 2

Core Architecture

Alder Lake-U

-

Processor Number

i5-1230U

AMD Socket FP7

Socket

LGA-1700

Radeon 740M

Integrated Graphics

Iris Xe Graphics (80EU)

Ryzen 5 (Zen 4 (Hawk Point))

Generation

-

Package

20.9 billions

Transistor Count

-

4 nm

Manufacturing Process

10 nm

15-30 W

Power Consumption

9 W

-

Peak Operating Temperature

100 °C

TSMC

Foundry

-

137 mm²

Die Size

-

CPU Performance

2

Performance Cores

2

4

Performance Core Threads

-

3.7 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

1.0 GHz

4.9 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

4.4 GHz

4

Efficiency Cores

8

Efficiency Core Threads

-

3 GHz

Efficiency Core Base Frequency

-

3.5 GHz

Efficiency Core Turbo Frequency

-

6

Total Core Count

10

12

Total Thread Count

12

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

37

Multiplier

10x

64 KB per core

L1 Cache

80 K per core

6 MB

L2 Cache

1280 K per core

16 MB

L3 Cache

12 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

1

SMP

-

Memory Parameters

DDR5-5600,LPDDR5x-7500

Memory Types

LPDDR5-5200, LPDDR4x-4267

256

Max Memory Size

64 GB

2

Max Memory Channels

2

89.6 GB/s

Max Memory Bandwidth

76.8 GB/s

Yes

ECC Memory Support

No

Graphics Card Parameters

true

Integrated Graphics

true

-

GPU Base Frequency

300 MHz

2800 MHz

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

850 MHz

-

Shader Units

640

-

Texture Units

40

-

Raster Operation Units

20

4

Execution Units

80

-

Power Consumption

15 W

-

Graphics Performance

1.41 TFLOPS

Miscellaneous

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 8540U

Official Website

Intel Core i5 1230U

4

PCIe Version

4.0

14

PCIe Lanes

14

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