AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs AMD Ryzen 5 7430U

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

4404 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6337 points

6525 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3730 points

3759 points

0.78% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3577 points

3630 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.31 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

86.99 points

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

2.30 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.3 GHz

7% 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

400th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Ryzen 5 7430U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7430U beats the Ryzen 5 5500U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5500U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7430U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5500U. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Ryzen 5 7430U 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.