AMD Ryzen 3 1200 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

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Price

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$ 79.99
$ 74.99
$ 5.00 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2292 points
5930 points
158% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4208 points
7967 points
89% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1753 points
5267 points
200% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1683 points
5102 points
203% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2718 points
5451 points
100% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.96 points
141.88 points
246% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2796 points
7589 points
171% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

941 points
1833 points
94% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2849 points
7653 points
168% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

996 points
1872 points
87% 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

3.1 GHz
3.6 GHz
16% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz
4.2 GHz
23% 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

384 KiB
Identical
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
3 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
16 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

680th of 1,118
270th of 1,118

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

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