AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs AMD Athlon II X2 220

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Athlon II X2 220 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500U beats the Athlon II X2 220 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X2 220 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500U has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Athlon II X2 220 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon II X2 220. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X2 220 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500U has significantly more L2 cache than the Athlon II X2 220

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 5500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.