AMD Ryzen 5 4500U vs AMD Ryzen 7 3800X

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 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

3472 points
6549 points
88% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5565 points
7888 points
41% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2824 points
6111 points
116% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2709 points
5988 points
121% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

69.25 points
185.59 points
168% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
16
166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz
3.9 GHz
69% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
4.5 GHz
12% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
599% significantly lower TDP
105 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
512 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
4 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
32 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

487th of 1,089
218th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile
Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 June
2019 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Ryzen 5 4500U vs Ryzen 7 3800X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 3800X beats the Ryzen 5 4500U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 4500U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 3800X has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 4500U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 4500U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 3800X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 4500U. A Ryzen 5 4500U CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 3800X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 3800X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 4500U. The Ryzen 7 3800X 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 4500U has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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