Intel Core i5-7500 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

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Price

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$ 73.80
$ 1.19 slightly less expensive
$ 74.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2456 points
5935 points
141% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4567 points
7977 points
74% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1869 points
5270 points
181% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1794 points
5105 points
184% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2294 points
5451 points
137% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.70 points
141.88 points
197% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3409 points
7589 points
122% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1243 points
1833 points
47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3533 points
7653 points
116% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1283 points
1872 points
45% 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

3.4 GHz
3.6 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
4.2 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
384 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
3 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB
16 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

661st of 1,127
272nd of 1,127

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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