AMD Ryzen 5 4600U vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

Ryzen 5 4600U vs Ryzen 5 5500U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 4600U beats the Ryzen 5 5500U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Both the Ryzen 5 4600U and Ryzen 5 5500U have the same clock speed. In addition, both chips have the same 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 and 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.