AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4000 Series Desktop 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 79.99
$ 419.01 significantly less expensive
$ 499.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3338 points
5333 points
59% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5184 points
7406 points
42% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2778 points
4663 points
67% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2668 points
4507 points
68% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3720 points
6809 points
83% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.62 points
127.97 points
98% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3735 points
6221 points
66% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1114 points
1526 points
36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3681 points
6107 points
65% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1109 points
1564 points
41% 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

3.5 GHz
3.70 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
4.2 GHz
13% 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

16 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

499th of 1,089
308th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Ryzen 5 PRO 4000 Series Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2020 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Ryzen 5 1500X vs Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G 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 PRO 4650G has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 1500X. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 1500X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1500X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 1500X. Also, the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G has a slightly higher turbo speed. 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 PRO 4650G 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 PRO 4650G.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1500X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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