Intel Pentium N4200 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500U. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  Intel Pentium AMD Ryzen
• Generation
  8 4
• CPU group
  Intel Pentium J4000/N4000 AMD Ryzen 5000U

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.

• Frequency
  1.10 GHz 2.10 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 6
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.50 GHz 4.00 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 12
• Hyperthreading
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal normal

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
  Intel HD Graphics 505 AMD Radeon 7 Graphics (Renoir)
• GPU frequency
  0.20 GHz 1.80 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.75 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  18 7
• Shader
  144 448
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB 2 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  9 9
• DirectX Version
  12 12
• Technology
  14 nm 7 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2016 Q1/2020

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 5 5500U and Intel Pentium N4200. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1866DDR4-2400 DDR4-3200
• Max. Memory
  8 GB 32 GB
• ECC
  No Yes
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  2.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  6 12

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium N4200 and AMD Ryzen 5 5500U to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  6 W 15 W
• TDP up
  -- 25 W
• TDP down
  -- 10 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 105 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium N4200 and Intel Pentium N4200, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V, SVM
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB 8.00 MB
• Architecture
  Apollo Lake Lucienne (Zen 2)
• Technology
  14 nm 7 nm
• Socket
  BGA 1296 FP6
• Release date
  Q3/2016 Q1/2021