AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 844.78
$ 68.12 slightly less expensive
$ 912.90

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4357 points
4897 points
12% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6337 points
6449 points
1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3730 points
4413 points
18% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3577 points
4297 points
20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3688 points
4322 points
17% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.31 points
118.70 points
31% slightly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

8565 points
10139 points
18% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4587 points
5138 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1288 points
1359 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4533 points
5383 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1297 points
1391 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
16% slightly higher clock speed
1.8 GHz

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
512 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
4 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache

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
356th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile
Ryzen 7 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2021 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Ryzen 7 5700U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5700U is faster than the Ryzen 5 5500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 5700U has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5500U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5700U. 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700U has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5500U. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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.

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