AMD Ryzen AI Max 390 vs Intel Pentium Gold 8500

AMD Ryzen AI Max 390
Intel Pentium Gold 8500 $161
12 Cores
24 Threads
3.2GHz Clock
5 Cores
6 Threads
1GHz Clock
Socket
FP11
Socket
BGA 1744
iGPU
Radeon 8050S
11.47 TFLOPS FP32
iGPU
Iris Xe 48EU 700MHz
540 GFLOPS FP32
GB6S 1,700
42%
GB6M 4,000
15%
CB23S N/A
0%
CB23S N/A
0%
CB23M N/A
0%
CB23M N/A
0%
Manufacturer
AMD
Manufacturer
Intel
Architecture
Zen 5
Architecture
Alder Lake
Family
Ryzen AI 300
Family
Pentium
Instruction Set (ISA)
x86-64
Instruction Set (ISA)
x86-64
Codename
Strix Halo
Eldora
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Zen 5
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Codename
Alder Lake-U
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Alder Lake-2P-8E
P-Core
Golden Cove
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-
E-Core
Gracemont
Market Segment
Laptop
Market Segment
Laptop
Release Date
1/6/2025
Release Date
2/23/2022
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC (SoC Die)
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Foundry
Intel
Intel (PCH Die)
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Node
N4X
N5 (SoC Die)
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Node
Intel 7
14nm (PCH Die)
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Die Size
2x 71 mm²
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Die Size
161 mm²
54 mm² (PCH Die)
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Transistor Count
2x 8.3 Billion
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Transistor Count
11.9 Billion
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12 Cores
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5 Cores
1 P-Cores
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4 E-Cores
24 Threads
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6 Threads
2 P-Threads
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4 E-Threads
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3.2GHz
5GHz Boost
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P-Core
1GHz
4.4GHz Boost
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-
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E-Core
700MHz
3.3GHz Boost
Overclocking
Locked
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Overclocking
Locked
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-
Type
PCIe
Type
OPI
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-
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-
Transfer Rate
16GT/s
Transfer Rate
4GT/s
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-
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-
Lanes
4
Lanes
8
Bandwidth
8GB/s
Bandwidth
4GB/s
Bi-directional
16GB/s
Bi-directional
8GB/s
L0 Instruction
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-
L0 Instruction
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L0 Data
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L0 Data
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L1 Instruction
32KB/Core
8-way set associative
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-
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L1 Instruction
32KB/P-Core
8-way set associative
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-
64KB/E-Core
8-way set associative
L1 Data
48KB/Core
12-way set associative
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-
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-
L1 Data
48KB/P-Core
12-way set associative
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-
32KB/E-Core
8-way set associative
L2
1024KB/Core
16-way set associative
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-
-
-
-
-
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L2
1280KB/Core
10-way set associative
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-
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2MB Shared (E-Core)
16-way set associative
L3
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64MB Shared
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16-way set associative
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-
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L3
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8MB Shared
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12-way set associative
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Channels
4
Channels
2
Max Memory
128GB
Max Memory
64GB
ECC
Not Supported
ECC
Not Supported
Bus Width/Channel
64Bit
Bus Width
256Bit
Bus Width/Channel
64Bit
Bus Width
128Bit
Clock
4000MHz
Transfer Rate
8000MT/s
Clock
2600MHz
Transfer Rate
5200MT/s
Bandwidth/Channel
64.0GB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
Bandwidth/Channel
41.6GB/s
Bandwidth
83.2GB/s
TDP
65W
45W cTDP Down
120W cTDP Up
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TDP
9W
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29W Peak
Temp
100°C Max
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Temp
100°C Max
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Included Cooler
Not Included
Included Cooler
Not Included
PCIe 4.0 x16 Lanes
PCIe 4.0 x6 Lanes
Radeon 8050S
2048 Shaders
2800MHz
11.47 TFLOPS FP32
Iris Xe 48EU 700MHz
384 Shaders
700MHz
540 GFLOPS FP32
XDNA 2
GNA 3.0
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32 Cores
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-
50 TOPS INT8
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No Cellular
No Cellular
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