AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition vs AMD Ryzen AI 5 340

Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition vs Ryzen AI 5 340 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen AI 5 340 beats the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen AI 5 340. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen AI 5 340 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. The Ryzen AI 5 340 also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.