AMD Ryzen 3 3200U vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 2 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1321 points
4357 points
229% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2556 points
6337 points
147% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

999 points
3730 points
273% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

972 points
3577 points
268% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.47 points
90.31 points
483% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

1804 points
8565 points
374% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1490 points
4587 points
207% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

801 points
1288 points
60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1532 points
4533 points
195% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

797 points
1297 points
62% 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
23% slightly higher clock speed
2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
4 GHz
14% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
Identical
15 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

192 KiB
384 KiB
100% 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

4 MiB
8 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

864th of 1,089
405th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics
Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January
2021 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Ryzen 3 3200U vs Ryzen 5 5500U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5500U is faster than the Ryzen 3 3200U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 3200U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 5500U has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 3200U. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500U has 6 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Ryzen 3 3200U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 3200U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 3200U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 5500U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 3 3200U. The Ryzen 5 5500U also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 3200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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