AMD Ryzen 5 5500 vs AMD Ryzen Z1

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen Z1 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

0.97% slightly better overall score

5874 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7969 points

8265 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5267 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

5178 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5102 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

5019 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

141.88 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

133.44 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7653 points

8200 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1872 points

2231 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) 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

12% slightly higher clock speed

3.20 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

4.9 GHz

16% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

28 W

132% significantly lower TDP

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

261st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Ryzen Z1

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 5500 vs Ryzen Z1 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen Z1 performs better 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 5500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen Z1. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen Z1 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.