AMD Ryzen 5 5500 vs AMD Ryzen AI 5 340

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen AI 300 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
9% slightly better overall score
5440 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7969 points
3% slightly better gaming score
7698 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5267 points
10% slightly better multitasking score
4785 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5102 points
10% slightly better heavy workload score
4637 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

141.88 points
152.57 points
7% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7653 points
9225 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1872 points
2369 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
79% significantly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
4.8 GHz
14% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
28 W
132% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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
299th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Ryzen AI 300 Series

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
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 5 5500 vs Ryzen AI 5 340 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5500 is faster than the Ryzen AI 5 340. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen AI 5 340 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 5500 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen AI 5 340. Despite this, the Ryzen AI 5 340 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen AI 5 340 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen AI 5 340 has significantly 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.

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