AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

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

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AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Price

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$ 235.00

$ 138.33

$ 96.67 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

42 %

58 %

38% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

65 %

78 %

20% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

34 %

52 %

52% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

33 %

51 %

54% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5180

7296

40% slightly higher Geekbench (multi) score

Geekbench (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1174

1411

20% slightly higher Geekbench (single) score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4963

7668

54% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

Identical

3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

4.2 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

Identical

3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

275th of 1,233

129th of 1,233

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

September 2019

April 2022

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 3500X vs Ryzen 5 5500 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5500 is faster than the Ryzen 5 3500X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3500X in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 5 5500 has more threads. According to our data, the Ryzen 5 3500X and Ryzen 5 5500 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500 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. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Ryzen 5 3500X also has significantly more 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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.