AMD Ryzen 5 5600 vs AMD Ryzen 5 4500. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  AMD Ryzen AMD Ryzen
• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen 5000 AMD Ryzen 4000G
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Generation
  4 3
• Predecessor
  AMD Ryzen 5 4600H --

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• CPU Cores / Threads
  6 / 12 6 / 12
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Cores
  6x 6x Zen 2
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  Yes Yes
• Frequency
  3.50 GHz 3.60 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  4.40 GHz 4.10 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (6 Cores)
  4.20 GHz --

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
  no iGPU no iGPU
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 5 4500 and AMD Ryzen 5 5600. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-3200 DDR4-3200
• Max. Memory
  64 GB 32 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Bandwidth
  51.2 GB/s 51.2 GB/s
• ECC
  No Yes
• PCIe
  4.0 x 20 3.0 x 12
• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 5 5600 and AMD Ryzen 5 4500 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  65 W 65 W
• TDP down
  45 W 45 W
• Tjunction max.
  95 °C 100 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 5 5600 and AMD Ryzen 5 5600, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• 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
• L2-Cache
  3.00 MB 3.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  32.00 MB 8.00 MB
• Architecture
  Vermeer (Zen 3) Renoir (Zen 2)
• Documents
  Technical data sheet --
• Technology
  7 nm 7 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM AMD-V, SVM
• Socket
  AM4 AM4
• Release date
  Q2/2022 Q2/2022