AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

Compare AMD 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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AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

Price

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$ 130.00

$ 714.78 significantly less expensive

$ 844.78

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4161 points

4357 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6597 points

4% slightly better gaming score

6337 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3390 points

3730 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3252 points

3577 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3860 points

4% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

3688 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points

90.31 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5905 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

4587 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1288 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5889 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4533 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1572 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1297 points

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

71% significantly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

4 GHz

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

3 MiB

Identical

3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

300% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

423rd of 1,089

405th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 September

2021 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 3500X vs Ryzen 5 5500U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5500U is faster than the Ryzen 5 3500X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Ryzen 5 5500U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3500X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U. The Ryzen 5 5500U outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 3500X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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.

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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.