Intel Core i5-4590 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

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Price

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$ 100.73
$ 74.99
$ 25.74 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2243 points
5925 points
164% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4067 points
7960 points
95% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1727 points
5263 points
204% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1657 points
5098 points
207% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2840 points
5451 points
91% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

44.58 points
141.88 points
218% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3116 points
7589 points
143% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1106 points
1833 points
65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3165 points
7653 points
141% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1144 points
1872 points
63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
12
200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
3.6 GHz
9% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
4.2 GHz
13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

84 W
65 W
29% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

686th of 1,111
268th of 1,111

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May
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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