AMD Ryzen 5 1400 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 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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Price

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$ 417.00
$ 427.78 significantly less expensive
$ 844.78

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2653 points
4357 points
64% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4214 points
6337 points
50% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2184 points
3730 points
70% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2097 points
3577 points
70% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3397 points
3688 points
8% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

52.99 points
90.31 points
70% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

3985 points
8565 points
114% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3185 points
4587 points
44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

955 points
1288 points
34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3133 points
4533 points
44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

962 points
1297 points
34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
52% significantly higher clock speed
2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz
4 GHz
17% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
15 W
333% significantly lower TDP

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
Identical
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

601st of 1,089
405th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2021 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Ryzen 5 1400 vs Ryzen 5 5500U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5500U is faster than the Ryzen 5 1400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1400 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 5 1400. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500U has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 1400. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1400. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 1400 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U. The Ryzen 5 5500U outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1400 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 5 1400. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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