Intel Core i5-3230M vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

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Price

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$ 99.99
$ 74.99
$ 25.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1083 points
5933 points
447% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2105 points
7973 points
278% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

813 points
5269 points
548% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

780 points
5103 points
554% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.73 points
141.88 points
700% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1041 points
7589 points
629% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

523 points
1833 points
250% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1017 points
7653 points
652% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

505 points
1872 points
270% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
6
200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
12
200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
3.6 GHz
38% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.2 GHz
4.2 GHz
31% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
85% significantly lower TDP
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

940th of 1,104
265th of 1,104

Family

The product line

Core
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 February
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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