Raspberry Pi 4 B (Broadcom BCM2711) vs AMD Ryzen 5 3500X. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  Broadcom BCM AMD Ryzen
• Generation
  4 3
• CPU group
  Broadcom BCM2711 AMD Ryzen 3000
• Predecessor
  -- AMD Ryzen 5 2500X

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  1.50 GHz 3.60 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 6
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo 4.10 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 6
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  Yes Yes
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• A core
  4x Cortex-A72 --

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  Broadcom VideoCore VI no iGPU
• GPU frequency
  0.50 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  4
• Shader
  64
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB --
• Max. displays
  2
• Generation
  6
• Technology
  28 nm
• Release date
  06/2019

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode No
• h264
  Decode / Encode No
• VP9
  Decode No
• VP8
  Decode No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 5 3500X and Raspberry Pi 4 B (Broadcom BCM2711). Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Max. Memory
  8192 GB
• ECC
  No Yes
• Memory channels
  1 2
• PCIe version
  4.0
• PCIe lanes
  20

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Raspberry Pi 4 B (Broadcom BCM2711) and AMD Ryzen 5 3500X to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  7.5 W 65 W
• TDP down
  3 W --
• Tjunction max.
  -- 95 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Raspberry Pi 4 B (Broadcom BCM2711) and Raspberry Pi 4 B (Broadcom BCM2711), virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  None AMD-V, SVM
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  1.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  -- 32.00 MB
• Architecture
  Cortex-A72 Matisse (Zen 2)
• Technology
  28 nm 7 nm
• Socket
  N/A AM4
• Release date
  06/2019 Q4/2019