AMD Ryzen 5 4500 vs AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5312 points
11380 points
114% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7287 points
10581 points
45% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4672 points
11723 points
150% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4523 points
11982 points
164% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4824 points
15023 points
211% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

124.29 points
538.07 points
332% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
16
166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
32
166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
44% significantly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz
5.4 GHz
31% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
55 W
18% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
1280 KiB
233% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
16 MiB
433% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
64 MiB
700% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

309th of 1,089
61st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 April
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 5 4500 vs Ryzen 9 9955HX benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 9955HX is faster than the Ryzen 5 4500. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 4500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 9955HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 4500 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 4500. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 4500 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 9955HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 9955HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 9955HX outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 4500 thanks to a slightly 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 9 9955HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 4500. The Ryzen 9 9955HX 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 4500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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