AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs AMD EPYC 74F3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs AMD 9 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD EPYC 74F3

Price

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$ 844.78

$ 1554.17 significantly less expensive

$ 2398.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4357 points

5669 points

30% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6337 points

7130 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3730 points

5211 points

39% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3577 points

5104 points

42% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.31 points

136.28 points

50% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4533 points

12689 points

179% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1297 points

1438 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

3.19 GHz

52% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

1500% significantly lower TDP

240 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

576 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

4.5 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

32 MiB

300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

405th of 1,089

278th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

2021 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 5 5500U vs EPYC 74F3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the EPYC 74F3 beats the Ryzen 5 5500U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the EPYC 74F3 has significantly more cores with 9 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500U. Our comparison shows that the EPYC 74F3 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U. A Ryzen 5 5500U CPU outputs less heat than a EPYC 74F3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the EPYC 74F3 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5500U. The EPYC 74F3 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.