AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core i5-3210M

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel Core 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 844.78
$ 39.99
$ 804.79 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4357 points
308% significantly better overall score
1066 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6337 points
202% significantly better gaming score
2093 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3730 points
368% significantly better multitasking score
796 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3577 points
368% significantly better heavy workload score
763 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.31 points
447% significantly higher Blender score
16.49 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4587 points
370% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
974 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1288 points
168% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
480 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4533 points
356% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
993 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1297 points
165% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
489 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
200% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
200% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
2.5 GHz
19% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
29% slightly higher turbo speed
3.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
133% significantly lower TDP
35 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

405th of 1,089
931st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Core i5-3210M benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5500U performs better than the Core i5-3210M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3210M in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 5500U has significantly more cores than the Core i5-3210M. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500U has 6 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-3210M. It also has more threads than the Core i5-3210M. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-3210M has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-3210M CPU because of its 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.

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