AMD Ryzen 5 5500 vs AMD Athlon 3000G

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Athlon Desktop 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 74.99
$ 69.99
$ 5.00 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5930 points
301% significantly better overall score
1477 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7967 points
190% significantly better gaming score
2742 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5267 points
364% significantly better multitasking score
1135 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5102 points
365% significantly better heavy workload score
1095 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

141.88 points
352% significantly higher Blender score
31.38 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7589 points
286% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1966 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1833 points
91% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
957 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7653 points
288% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1970 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1872 points
95% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
956 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
200% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
200% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed
3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
35 W
85% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
100% significantly more L1 cache
192 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

270th of 1,119
835th of 1,119

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Athlon Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 April
2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
-

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 5 5500 vs Athlon 3000G comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5500 is faster than the Athlon 3000G. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon 3000G in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 5500 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Athlon 3000G that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon 3000G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon 3000G. The Athlon 3000G outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 5500 thanks to a 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 5 5500 has more L2 cache than the Athlon 3000G. The Ryzen 5 5500 also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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