AMD Ryzen 5 5500 - CPU Specs

Specifications Benchmarks Synonyms

Specifications

Technical data

CPU generation and family

CPU group
AMD Ryzen 5000G
Family
Ryzen
Form Factor
Desktops / Boxed Processor
Generation
4
Name
AMD Ryzen 5 5500
Predecessor
—
Segment
Desktop / Server
Series
Ryzen 5000 Series
Successor
—

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Base Frequency
3.6 GHz
Core architecture
normal
Core Configuration
6x
CPU Cores
6
CPU Threads
12
Hyperthreading / SMT
Yes
Max. Boost Clock
4.2 GHz
Overclocking
Yes
Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
4.2 GHz
Turbo Frequency (6 Cores)
—

Internal Graphics

GPU name
None
Graphics verification source
https://www.amd.com/en/products/specifications/processors.html

Hardware codec support

AV1
No
H.264 / AVC
No
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
No
JPEG
No
VC-1
No
VP8
No
VP9
No

Memory & PCIe

ECC
No
Max. Memory
64 GB
Memory Bandwidth
51.2 GB/s
Memory channels
2
Memory type
DDR4
PCIe
PCIe 3.0
System Memory Specification
3200

Encryption

AES-NI
Yes

Thermal Management

Default TDP
65 W
Maximum Operating Temperature
90 °C
TDP (PL1, legacy label)
65 W
TDP (PL2)
—
TDP down
45 W
TDP up
—

Technical details

Architecture
Cezanne (Zen 3)
Codename
Cezanne
Documents
Technical data sheet
Instruction set (ISA)
x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions
SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
L1-Cache
0.375 MB
L2-Cache
3 MB
L3-Cache
16 MB
Manufacturer product ID (boxed)
100-100000457BOX
Manufacturer product ID (tray)
100-000000457
Official source
https://www.amd.com/en/products/specifications/processors.html
Operating systems
Windows 11 - 64-Bit Edition / Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition / RHEL x86 64-Bit / Ubuntu x86 64-Bit
Part Number
—
Release date
2022-04-04
Socket
AM4
Technology
TSMC 7nm FinFET
Thermal Solution (PIB)
AMD Wraith Stealth
Verification scope
Explicit manufacturer fields refreshed; other original historical fields retained, not all reverified. Partial composite conflicts are preserved.
Verified on
2026-10-01
Virtualization
AMD-V, SVM

Positions in all rankings

Common positions AMD Ryzen 5 5500 CPU in popular benchmarks, for comparison with other models.

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

121 place
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

136 place
Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

83 place
Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

142 place
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

36 place
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

168 place
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

187 place
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

290 place
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

158 place

Blender Open Data

Official median of community submissions; higher is better. Blender versions, operating systems and compute backends remain separate.

Blender 5.2.0 / CPU / Linux: 142.910985 samples/min submissions: 6; snapshot: 2026-10-01 Official source
Blender 5.2.0 / CPU / Windows: 135.614634 samples/min submissions: 10; snapshot: 2026-10-01 Official source

Snapshot date is the retrieval date, not the measurement date. Individual dates, RAM, drivers and power limits are unknown. This aggregates different user systems; it is not a test of a specific partner board and is excluded from the legacy composite index.

Benchmarks

Performance tests CPU

Compare the scores of popular benchmarks AMD Ryzen 5 5500 with other processors to understand the real speed of the CPU when processing content.

Tests include mathematical calculations, creation of 3D models, cryptocurrency mining, tests in single and multi-core modes.

These are saved results from the earlier catalog. Measurement dates and test configurations were not recorded. Models with no comparable results are omitted.

Recent models: test results with identified primary sources — Cinebench R23 · Cinebench R20 · Cinebench R15 · Cinebench 2026 · RandomX benchmark

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Maxon's Cinebench R23 SC is a cross-platform test suite for macOs and Windows uses one CPU core, with no hypetrading

Higher values are better in this metric.

1370

AMD Ryzen 5 5500

1382

Intel Core i9-10900K

1382

Intel Core i9-10900KF

All the benchmark results

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Maxon's Cinebench R23 MC is a cross-platform test suite for macOs and Windows using a multi-core and hyperthreading

Higher values are better in this metric.

10605

AMD Ryzen 5 5500

11268

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X

11006

AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS

All the benchmark results

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 SC is a high load CPU test for long tasks on a desktop or notebook PC, uses one CPU core, with no hypetrading

Higher values are better in this metric.

535

AMD Ryzen 5 5500

539

AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT

539

AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT

All the benchmark results

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 MC is a high load CPU test for long tasks on a desktop or notebook PC, using a multi-core and hyperthreading

Higher values are better in this metric.

4086

AMD Ryzen 5 5500

4186

Intel Core i5-11500H

4120

Intel Xeon W-3225

All the benchmark results

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

The Cinebench R15 SC stresses the computing modules of a desktop or laptop computer to their limits and accurately determines the key performance parameters of the hardware

Higher values are better in this metric.

221

AMD Ryzen 5 5500

228

Intel Core i7-10700K

228

Intel Core i7-10700KF

All the benchmark results

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

The Cinebench R15 MC stresses the computing modules of a desktop or laptop computer to their limits and accurately determines the key performance parameters of the hardware

Higher values are better in this metric.

1714

AMD Ryzen 5 5500

1723

Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3

1722

Intel Xeon Silver 4116

All the benchmark results

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 SC is a popular cross-platform performance test for desktop or mobile processors that uses system memory intensively

Higher values are better in this metric.

1355

AMD Ryzen 5 5500

1355

Intel Core i5-1135G7

1354

Intel Core i5-10600KF

All the benchmark results

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 MC is a popular cross-platform performance test for desktop or mobile processors that uses system memory intensively

Higher values are better in this metric.

5979

AMD Ryzen 5 5500

6014

Intel Core i5-10400F

5986

Intel Core i7-6850K

All the benchmark results

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

PassMark is a test suite that performs complex mathematical calculations to determine CPU performance on file compression, encryption and physics-related tasks

Higher values are better in this metric.

19607

AMD Ryzen 5 5500

19710

Intel Xeon E5-2695 v3

19667

Intel Xeon Gold 6144

All the benchmark results

Synonyms

Nearby models in the composite benchmark index.

These are saved results from the earlier catalog. Measurement dates and test configurations were not recorded. Models with no comparable results are omitted. Index 0–100: equal-weight mean of each score relative to the best saved score among models with both tests. Tests: Cinebench R23 Multi-Core + Geekbench 5 Multi-Core. This index does not predict performance in every workload.

Recent models: test results with identified primary sources — Cinebench R23 · Cinebench R20 · Cinebench R15 · Cinebench 2026 · RandomX benchmark