AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3338 points

3472 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5184 points

5565 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2778 points

2824 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2668 points

2709 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.62 points

69.25 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

4608 points

5920 points

28% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

52% significantly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

4 GHz

8% 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

16 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

499th of 1,089

487th 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

2020 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 1500X vs Ryzen 5 4500U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 4500U is faster than the Ryzen 5 1500X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1500X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 4500U has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 1500X. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4500U has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 1500X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 1500X has more threads than the Ryzen 5 4500U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1500X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 4500U. The Ryzen 5 4500U outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1500X 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 4500U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 1500X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 1500X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 4500U.

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 1500X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.