AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs AMD Ryzen 5 7235HS

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs AMD 4 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

8% slightly better overall score

4006 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6337 points

2% slightly better gaming score

6204 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3730 points

12% slightly better multitasking score

3328 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3577 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

3195 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.31 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

79.73 points

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

3.20 GHz

52% significantly 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

200% significantly lower TDP

45 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

49% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

405th of 1,089

435th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Ryzen 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Ryzen 5 7235HS comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5500U performs better than the Ryzen 5 7235HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7235HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 5500U has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7235HS that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7235HS. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7235HS has a significantly 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 Ryzen 5 7235HS. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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.