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

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

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Price

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$ 79.99
$ 619.78 significantly less expensive
$ 699.77

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3338 points
4132 points
23% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5184 points
5983 points
15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2778 points
3549 points
27% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2668 points
3422 points
28% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.62 points
89.80 points
38% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3735 points
4683 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1114 points
1316 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3681 points
4568 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1109 points
1316 points
18% 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
66% significantly higher clock speed
2.1 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
425th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Ryzen 5 PRO 4000 Series Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2020 May

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 1500X vs Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U performs better 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 4650U has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 1500X. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 1500X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1500X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1500X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U. The Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 1500X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 1500X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U.

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 5 1500X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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