AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 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

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 58.40
$ 786.38 significantly less expensive
$ 844.78

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4496 points
3% slightly better overall score
4357 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6035 points
6337 points
5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3997 points
7% slightly better multitasking score
3730 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3874 points
8% slightly better heavy workload score
3577 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3194 points
3688 points
15% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.47 points
11% slightly higher Blender score
90.31 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

6468 points
8565 points
32% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4485 points
4587 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1048 points
1288 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4641 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4533 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1085 points
1297 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

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

3.6 GHz
4 GHz
11% 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

576 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
Identical
3 MiB

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

390th 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 1600 vs Ryzen 5 5500U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500U beats the Ryzen 5 1600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1600 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1600 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5500U. The Ryzen 5 5500U outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1600 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, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 5 1600 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 1600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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