AMD Ryzen 7 4700S vs AMD Ryzen 7 4700U. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile
• Family
  AMD Ryzen AMD Ryzen
• Generation
  3 3
• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen 4000G AMD Ryzen 4000U

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
  3.20 GHz 2.00 GHz
• CPU Cores
  8 8
• Turbo (1 Core)
  4.00 GHz 4.10 GHz
• CPU Threads
  16 8
• Turbo (8 Cores)
  3.60 GHz 3.40 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal normal

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
  no iGPU AMD Radeon 7 Graphics (Renoir)
• GPU frequency
  1.60 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  7
• Shader
  448
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 2 GB
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  9
• DirectX Version
  12
• Technology
  7 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2020

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 7 4700U and AMD Ryzen 7 4700S. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  GDDR6 DDR4-3200
• Max. Memory
  16 GB 64 GB
• ECC
  No Yes
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  12 12

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 7 4700S and AMD Ryzen 7 4700U to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  65 W 15 W
• TDP up
  -- 35 W
• TDP down
  45 W 10 W
• Tjunction max.
  100 °C 105 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 7 4700S and AMD Ryzen 7 4700S, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM AMD-V, SVM
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L3-Cache
  8.00 MB 8.00 MB
• Architecture
  Renoir (Zen 2) Renoir (Zen 2)
• Technology
  7 nm 7 nm
• Socket
  AM4 FP6
• Release date
  Q2/2021 Q1/2020