The AMD Ryzen 5 3580U is a mobile processor with 4 cores, launched in October 2019. It is part of the Ryzen 5 lineup, using the Zen+ (Picasso) architecture with Socket FP5. Thanks to AMD Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) the core-count is effectively doubled, to 8 threads. Ryzen 5 3580U has 4MB of L3 cache and operates at 2.1 GHz by default, but can boost up to 3.7 GHz, depending on the workload. AMD is making the Ryzen 5 3580U on a 12 nm production node using 4,940 million transistors. The silicon die of the chip is not fabricated at AMD, but at the foundry of GlobalFoundries. The multiplier is locked on Ryzen 5 3580U, which limits its overclocking potential.
With a TDP of 15 W, the Ryzen 5 3580U consumes very little energy. AMD's processor supports DDR4 memory with a dual-channel interface. The highest officially supported memory speed is 2400 MHz, but with overclocking (and the right memory modules) you can go even higher. For communication with other components in the machine, Ryzen 5 3580U uses a PCI-Express Gen 3 connection. This processor features the Radeon Vega 9 integrated graphics solution.
Hardware virtualization is available on the Ryzen 5 3580U, which greatly improves virtual machine performance. Programs using Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) can run on this processor, boosting performance for calculation-heavy applications. Besides AVX, AMD is including the newer AVX2 standard, too, but not AVX-512.