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AMD Ryzen 5 5500 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500U. Specifications, performance, tests

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2022-04-04
AMD Ryzen 5 5500
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AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

What's the best choice AMD Ryzen 5 5500 or AMD Ryzen 5 5500U? Which processor is faster?

We have prepared a comparison to help you choose the best processor. Compare their specifications and benchmarks.

AMD Ryzen 5 5500 has a base frequency of 3.6 GHz. 6 / 12 CPU Cores / Threads. Stated TDP / base power 65 W. Released in 2022-04-04.

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U has a base frequency of 2.1 GHz. 6 / 12 CPU Cores / Threads. Stated TDP / base power 15 W. Released in 2021-01-12.

Differences

AMD Ryzen 5 5500 Reasons to consider
AMD Ryzen 5 5500
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  • Place in the overall ranking

    (based on several benchmarks)

    140 left arrow place
  • Higher clock speed

    Around 71% better clock speed

    3.6 GHz left arrow 2.1 GHz
  • Higher turbo clock speed

    Around 5% higher specified turbo frequency

    4.2 GHz left arrow 4 GHz

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
AMD Ryzen 5 5500U Reasons to consider
AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
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  • Place in the overall ranking

    (based on several benchmarks)

    165 left arrow place
  • Lower stated TDP / base power

    Power limits alone do not measure performance per watt.

    15 W left arrow 65 W

Positions in all rankings

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

  • Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
    188 place
  • Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
    186 place
  • Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)
    175 place
  • Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)
    213 place
  • Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)
    302 place
  • Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
    321 place
  • iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
    156 place
  • Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark
    275 place

Specifications

Technical data
AMD Ryzen 5 5500 AMD Ryzen 5 5500
AMD Ryzen 5 5500U AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
CPU family and group

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

  • CPU group
    AMD Ryzen 5000G left arrow AMD Ryzen 5000U
  • Family
    Ryzen left arrow Ryzen
  • Form Factor
    Desktops / Boxed Processor left arrow Laptops / Desktops
  • Generation
    4 left arrow 4
  • Segment
    Desktop / Server left arrow Mobile
  • Series
    Ryzen 5000 Series left arrow Ryzen 5000 Series
CPU Technical specs

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

  • Base Frequency
    3.6 GHz left arrow 2.1 GHz
  • Core architecture
    normal left arrow normal
  • Core Configuration
    6x left arrow -
  • CPU Cores
    6 left arrow 6
  • CPU Threads
    12 left arrow 12
  • Hyperthreading / SMT
    Yes left arrow Yes
  • Max. Boost Clock
    4.2 GHz left arrow 4 GHz
  • Overclocking
    Yes left arrow No
  • Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
    4.2 GHz left arrow 4 GHz
  • Turbo Frequency (6 Cores)
    - left arrow 3.4 GHz
IGPU

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
    None left arrow AMD Radeon Graphics
  • DirectX Version
    - left arrow 12
  • Execution units
    - left arrow 7
  • Generation
    - left arrow 9
  • GPU Frequency
    - left arrow 1800 MHz
  • GPU Turbo
    - left arrow No turbo
  • Graphics Cores
    - left arrow 7
  • Max. displays
    - left arrow 3
  • Max. GPU Memory
    - left arrow 2 GB
  • Release date
    - left arrow Q1/2020
  • Shader
    - left arrow 448
  • Technology
    - left arrow 7 nm
Hardware codec support

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

  • AV1
    No left arrow No
  • H.264 / AVC
    No left arrow Decode / Encode
  • h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
    No left arrow Decode / Encode
  • h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
    No left arrow Decode / Encode
  • JPEG
    No left arrow Decode / Encode
  • VC-1
    No left arrow Decode
  • VP8
    No left arrow Decode / Encode
  • VP9
    No left arrow Decode / Encode
Memory specs & PCI

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 5 5500U and AMD Ryzen 5 5500. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

  • ECC
    No left arrow Yes
  • Max. Memory
    64 GB left arrow 32 GB
  • Memory Bandwidth
    51.2 GB/s left arrow -
  • Memory channels
    2 left arrow 2
  • Memory type
    DDR4 left arrow DDR4 - Up to 3200 / LPDDR4 - Up to 4266
  • PCIe
    PCIe 3.0 left arrow PCIe 3.0
  • System Memory Specification
    3200 left arrow -
  • PCIe lanes
    - left arrow 12
  • PCIe version
    - left arrow 3.0
Encryption
  • AES-NI
    Yes left arrow Yes
Thermal Management

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 5 5500 and AMD Ryzen 5 5500U Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

  • Default TDP
    65 W left arrow 15 W
  • Maximum Operating Temperature
    90 °C left arrow 105 °C
  • TDP (PL1, legacy label)
    65 W left arrow 15 W
  • TDP down
    45 W left arrow 10 W
  • TDP up
    - left arrow 25 W
  • Configurable TDP
    - left arrow 10-25 W
Technologies and extensions

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 5 5500 and AMD Ryzen 5 5500U, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

  • Architecture
    Cezanne (Zen 3) left arrow Lucienne (Zen 2)
  • Codename
    Cezanne left arrow Lucienne
  • Documents
    Technical data sheet left arrow -
  • Instruction set (ISA)
    x86-64 (64 bit) left arrow x86-64 (64 bit)
  • ISA extensions
    SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 left arrow SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
  • L1-Cache
    0.375 MB left arrow -
  • L2-Cache
    3 MB left arrow 3 MB
  • L3-Cache
    16 MB left arrow 8 MB
  • Manufacturer product ID (boxed)
    100-100000457BOX left arrow -
  • Manufacturer product ID (tray)
    100-000000457 left arrow 100-000000375
  • Operating systems
    Windows 11 - 64-Bit Edition / Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition / RHEL x86 64-Bit / Ubuntu x86 64-Bit left arrow Windows 11 - 64-Bit Edition / Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition / RHEL x86 64-Bit / Ubuntu x86 64-Bit
  • Release date
    2022-04-04 left arrow 2021-01-12
  • Socket
    AM4 left arrow FP6
  • Technology
    TSMC 7nm FinFET left arrow TSMC 7nm FinFET
  • Thermal Solution (PIB)
    AMD Wraith Stealth left arrow -
  • Virtualization
    AMD-V, SVM left arrow AMD-V, SVM

Benchmarks

Performance tests CPUs

Shared tests with results for both models: 2

Blender Cycles

Each row uses one Blender version, operating system and compute backend.

Test and settingsAMD Ryzen 5 5500 AMD Ryzen 5 5500UResult difference¹
Blender 5.2.0 / CPU / Windows 135.506045 samples/min Submissions: 11 80.808026 samples/min Submissions: 8 -40.4 %
Blender 5.1.1 / CPU / Windows 138.369431 samples/min Submissions: 8 66.442048 samples/min Submissions: 5 -52.0 %

¹ Difference of the second result relative to the first in that row. No percentage is calculated for different upscaling algorithms. This compares published results, not a universal performance index.

Individual model tests

These results have no shared test of both models with the same version and settings. They are shown separately without a percentage difference.

AMD Ryzen 5 5500

More results: 3

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

Individual system tests

Results were obtained on the reported systems. Test versions and settings remain separate; incomplete conditions do not support calculated model performance differences.

RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 1M / 8 threads / windows

Model ResultReported conditions
AMD Ryzen 5 5500 4159.699171 H/s RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 1M / 8 threads / windows
System RAM: 56 GB
OS: Windows NT 10.0
Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. / B550 GAMING X V2
Duration: 240.402 s
User-submitted run; tuning and power settings are incomplete.

RandomX / XMRig 6.22.0 / 1M / 5 threads / windows

Model ResultReported conditions
AMD Ryzen 5 5500U 2648.56461 H/s RandomX / XMRig 6.22.0 / 1M / 5 threads / windows
System RAM: 24 GB
OS: Windows NT 10.0
Motherboard: LENOVO / LNVNB161216
Duration: 377.563 s
User-submitted run; tuning and power settings are incomplete.

Based on the results of several benchmarks, you can more accurately estimate the difference in performance between AMD Ryzen 5 5500 and AMD Ryzen 5 5500U.

Compare the synthetic test values and choose the best processor!

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.

1370.000000
AMD Ryzen 5 5500
1180.000000
AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
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.

10605.000000
AMD Ryzen 5 5500
7783.000000
AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
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.

535.000000
AMD Ryzen 5 5500
462.000000
AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
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.

4086.000000
AMD Ryzen 5 5500
2573.000000
AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
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.

1355.000000
AMD Ryzen 5 5500
1134.000000
AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
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.

5979.000000
AMD Ryzen 5 5500
5622.000000
AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
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.

19607.000000
AMD Ryzen 5 5500
13474.000000
AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

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