AMD Ryzen 5 5500 vs AMD Ryzen 5 8645HS

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

7040 points

18% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7969 points

9593 points

20% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5267 points

6234 points

18% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5102 points

6029 points

18% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

141.88 points

156.82 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

4.30 GHz

19% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

5 GHz

19% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

45 W

44% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

Identical

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

256th of 1,089

189th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 5500 vs Ryzen 5 8645HS specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 8645HS 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 and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 8645HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500. Also, the Ryzen 5 8645HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 8645HS 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 8645HS has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5500. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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.