AMD Ryzen 5 5500 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7000 Series 6 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

5931 points

6035 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7969 points

9622 points

20% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5267 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

4899 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5102 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

4684 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5451 points

5932 points

8% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

141.88 points

192.43 points

35% slightly higher Blender score

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

4.10 GHz

13% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

4.7 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

6 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

96 MiB

499% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

256th of 1,089

248th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Ryzen 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 April

2024 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 5500 vs Ryzen 5 7600X3D specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7600X3D is faster than the Ryzen 5 5500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5500 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 5 5500 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7600X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5500. Also, the Ryzen 5 7600X3D has a slightly higher 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 7600X3D has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5500. The Ryzen 5 7600X3D 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.