AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Celeron N4500

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Celeron N4500 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5500U is faster than the Celeron N4500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron N4500 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 Celeron N4500 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Celeron N4500. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Celeron N4500. The Celeron N4500 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 5500U thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.