Comparing AMD EPYC Embedded 3255 vs AMD EPYC Embedded 3255

description_compare AMD EPYC Embedded 3255 and AMD Ryzen 5 3500C

• Name
  AMD EPYC Embedded 3255 AMD Ryzen 5 3500C
• Family
  AMD EPYC AMD Ryzen
• CPU group
  AMD EPYC Embedded 3000 AMD Ryzen 3000C
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Generation
  1 2

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Frequency
  2.50 GHz 2.10 GHz

• GPU name
  no iGPU AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics
• GPU frequency
  1.20 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  8
• Shader
  512
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 2 GB
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  8
• Technology
  14 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2018

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

• Memory type
  DDR4-2666 DDR4-2666
• Max. Memory
  512 GB 64 GB
• Memory channels
  2 (Dual Channel) 2
• ECC
  Yes Yes

• TDP (PL1)
  55 W 15 W
• TDP up
  -- 25 W
• TDP down
  25 W 12 W
• Tjunction max.
  105 \xc2\xb0C 105 °C

• Technology
  14 nm 12 nm
• Socket
  SP4r2 FP5
• L2-Cache
  4.00 MB 2.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  16.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Snowy Owl (Zen) Picasso (Zen+)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM AMD-V, SVM
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• Release date
  Q1/2018 Q3/2020