AMD Ryzen 5 5500 vs AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD 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

5931 points
9% slightly better overall score
5427 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7969 points
9% slightly better gaming score
7307 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5267 points
8% slightly better multitasking score
4865 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5102 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score
4745 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

141.88 points
159.68 points
12% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
12% slightly higher clock speed
3.20 GHz

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

16 MiB
Identical
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

256th of 1,089
300th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 April
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 5 5500 vs Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5500 performs better than the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5500. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5500. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5500. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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