AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 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

4357 points

4% slightly better overall score

4180 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6337 points

12% slightly better gaming score

5656 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3730 points

0.19% slightly better multitasking score

3723 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3577 points

3608 points

0.87% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.31 points

100.46 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

8565 points

9345 points

9% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4587 points

5751 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1288 points

1605 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4533 points

5709 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1297 points

1617 points

24% 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

2.1 GHz

2.3 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.2 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

Identical

15 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

Identical

3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

16 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

405th of 1,089

422nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Ryzen 5 5600U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5600U performs better than the Ryzen 5 5500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 5 5600U also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.